March 14, 1930

[ellenkushner]

Venetia, on the fateful day that Pluto popped into her head, was having breakfast with her mother and her grandfather, Falconer Madan, retired librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. He had exciting news to tell . . . .

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this link! What a great story.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I wish *my* grandfather had been named Falconer Madan.

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

Except that there really is no better grandfather name than BORIS.