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The Battle of the Bells

by Jerome Bixby

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Out in the Pennsylvania countryside, a couple of locals have a favourite prank for city visitors: a chain with a handle, hanging just where a stranger will reach up and pull it. It only works by day and with the right victims, until the day a polite young man pulls it and the joke turns cosmic.

A playful fantasy from the author of “It’s a Good Life”, first printed in a 1954 magazine. Download the free EPUB.

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