More juvenilia: “The Supersonic Nightingale” (retelling of Robin Hood legends, age 10) and “The Hole In the Sky” (short story, age 11).
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Two Brief Visions of the Future
More juvenilia: “World In the Wings” and “Letter from the Moon” (both age 12).
Songs of Discontent
More juvenilia: “Flight to the Stars” (short story, age 10) and “Schoolsville: A Bum Scene?” (a review of my elementary school, age 12).
Two Tales Terminating Tragically
More juvenilia: “The Tragic Affair of the Serpentine Bridge” (short story co-authored with my mother, 1973) and “Second Choice Pet” (essay, 1977).
I Live In an Oily Basement, I Hear Voices, and All I Want Is To Take Children For Rides
More juvenilia from the cutting edge of imaginative literature: The Christmas Tree (short story, age 8); Green Fire (short story, age 9); and Why English Is Important In the World Today (essay, age 10).
Scholastic Achievement Test
More juvenilia: Whether What Is Transcendent Is Dependent (unsuccessful parody of medieval philosophy, age 19). Adam Smith says somewhere that a sculpture of an animal is more impressive than a sculpture of a chair, because a sculpture of a chair isn’t sufficiently different from an actual chair; a similar criticism applies here.