This week we begin our third collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. This week it's "An Astral Onion" by Elia Wilkinson Peattie.

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