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It was uncanny, sure, but they never did anybody any harm. Grandma Harken, who lived down past the well, said that the jackalopes were the daughters of the rain and driving them off would bring on the drought. People said they didn’t believe a word of it, but when you live in a desert, you don’t take chances.

Oh, I love this.  Hey everybody: go read this.

Hello, yes, good.

A tad body-horror-ish, but yes.

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#this fic #it is an awesome fic #go #bask in the wonders of Ursula Vernon #(I really should read Digger sometime) #(first people told me Digger was awesome) #(and I said ‘okay good to know’) #(and put it into the Infinite Pile of To-Be-Read) #(*then* I met Ursula Vernon) #(and found that she was awesome) #(*then* I learned she wrote Digger)