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Book: Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
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  1. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    How can this be, this great magic, that makes real the unreal, the not-actual into a kind of factless fictual, turns lies into the True? Don't ask me, for I am new at this work, new at telling my own truth. All I can start with is Once Upon A Time, that oldest and truest of lies.
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  2. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.
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  3. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    She's gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.
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  4. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    Words shouldn't be dirty or cleanBut definitely sweet,On the tongue, in the mind.
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  5. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    No one sees her of course. She doesn't exist unless you count bad dreams. Yet still she flies,
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  6. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    Somewhere becomes a nightmare. I knock on no doors, make no phone calls. Nowhere becomes my destination. You can find it on the blank spaces of any free map in any old store. Just turn a corner of your mind, and it's there.
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  7. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    You think you know this story. You do not.
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  8. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    Stories retold are stories remade.
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  9. Jane Yolen _ Finding Baba Yaga: A Short

    Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.
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