James Axler

 

 

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For Cathy Joyce and Feroze Mohammed, who hold worlds together

 

 

 

 

First edition January 1997

 

ISBN 0-373-62535-9

 

BITTER FRUIT

 

Copyright 1997 by Worldwide Library.

 

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Was it just a quantum shift magic mushroom, the Reaper's white umbrella. Lo, Nineveh and Tyre, Sodom and Gomorrha.

 

from the diary of Marylou Crawford A.D. 2001