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Sandman's Child from "Smoke & Mirrors"

Sandman's Child from "Smoke & Mirrors"

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Cynthia Bagley
Oct 26, 2017
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Sandman's Child from "Smoke & Mirrors"
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It was a job. Sweep the sand across the land so that the little humans and animals could sleep. The night owls and other predators had the night to eat and feed. The humans had built light poles and other electrical gadgets so that they could see in the night, but every mortal in this world needed sleep except the Sandman.

He had lived for a millennium, …

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