From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <202511126a@crcomp.net>, Don  wrote:   
   >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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   Thanks, I don't know that one at all!   
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