From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   Ted Nolan wrote:   
   > There are many Christmas themed stories of course, but right now   
   > I can't recall any Thanksgiving ones.   
      
   Below is the beginning of BARRIERS by Nordley. It fits this thread's   
   titular criteria. The short story's softly sexual with forbidden   
   fruit.   
      
       The tables didn’t meet exactly that Thanksgiving. Not   
       so bad, I grudgingly admitted, for a twelve-year-old   
       script being acted out across four and a third light-   
       years. There was just a little offset: Jenny’s plate   
       was a millimeter or two ahead of mine. That was all   
       the difference that met the eye, just enough to notice   
       the barrier if you knew what to look for. ...   
      
          
      
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   Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_   
   telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |   
   tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)