A Hundred Thousand Worlds

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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Only you can decide where your home is. And every good story is about finding your way there.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

X-Files

Fringe

N.B.: This is one of those paragraphs I needed to develop better and failed to, for those of you keeping score at home.

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Val didn't know the name, but she knew there was a lot of excitement around it. It's something she likes quite a bit about this little world: the capability of those within it to get deeply and sincerely excited about things. She wonders how they fare in the real world, where excitement is poorly valued, and she tries to think of things she has been excited about. There are so few.