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Short story about the faerie king and queen, Oberon and Titania, and their mortal son, who suffers from leukemia.
Chris Adrian is a novelist and pediatrician in Los Angeles.
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Short story about the faerie king and queen, Oberon and Titania, and their mortal son, who suffers from leukemia.
The story takes place during the Civil War. Walt Whitman goes from Brooklyn to Washington to try to find his brother, George Washington Whitman. He finds …