Fiction Devika's dreams were filled with flying reptiles. Crocodiles and serpents soared heavenward on diaphanous wings. They disturbed her sleep night after night. "She wants the best of both worlds." That was her father's interpretation of her dreams. Seeing her swollen eyes in the morning, mother asked her what disturbed her sleep. She told mother about the crocodiles and serpents with diaphanous wings that visited her night after night. Mother dutifully reported the matter to father. "Both worlds?" Mother did not understand. "The reptiles belong to the earth. Too much to the earth. The wings belong to the heavens. And diaphanous wings!" He paused. "Hmm... They belong to angels, I suppose." Devika was reading a poem by Sara Teasdale when mother was trying to decode the link between the terrestrial reptiles and the celestial angels. Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin onl
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