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EXPLORING
THE CLOUDS ______________________ Also by John
Fraser and published by
AESOP Modern Fiction: Animal Tales The Answer Behaving Well Best Friends Black Masks Blue Light The Case Confessions The Ends of the Earth Enterprising Women The Future’s Coming
Everywhere Happy Always Hard Places An Illusion of Sun The Magnificent Wurlitzer Medusa Military Roads The Observatory The Other Shore People You Will Never Meet The Red Bird The Red Tank Runners ‘S’ Short Lives Sisters Soft Landing The Storm Thinking Scientifically Thirty Years Three Beauties Tomorrow the Victory
AESOP Modern Oxford AESOP Modern
Fiction An
imprint of AESOP Publications Martin
Noble Editorial / AESOP 28a
Abberbury Road, Oxford OX4 4ES, UK www.aesopbooks.com First
edition published by AESOP Publications Copyright
(c) 2021 John Fraser www.johnfraserfiction.com The
right of John Fraser to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the copyright
designs and Patents Act 1988. A
catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library. First
edition 2021 Condition
of sale: This book
is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or
otherwise, be lent, sold or hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of
binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a
similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent
purchaser. ISBN: 978-1-910301-89-0 _____________
CONTENTS Exploring
the Clouds
7 A Swift Trip
to Mexico 8 Settling
Accounts
13 Party-Going,
Orgy-Hoping 14 Elise: The
Image of Reality 20 Up and Down
in a Balloon 29 Turnabout
35 The Tree of
Life
39 The Pacific
42 The Withered
Tree of Life 51 Odette’s
Quest for Power
55 Almost Alone
at Last
57 Felipe
58 Thor….
64 The Treasure 67 The Search –
with Gusto…. 72 Happiness
Revisited 76 Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dragonflies 78 Eat and Be
Eaten 82 Jessica 92 Nomads 94 Fintan
108 The Ship of
Fools
121 Wafa
124 People Who
Have Stories
130 Interesting
and Unlikely 132 Recruiting
151 Enchantment
161 Disenchantment
171 Instead, the
Movie
178 Cyril
184 New Projects
188 New Life
196 About the author
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