Seven for a Secret(Lint) Summary
Charles de Lint

Seven for a Secret Summary

In "Seven for a Secret," collected in Moonlight and Vines, de Lint spins a fairy tale that takes place in an unnamed city, perhaps in his fictional Newford, his partly Canadian, partly American city that is the setting for many of his tales, although the story's mention of "Devil's Night" may be an allusion to Detroit. It opens, "What follows is imagined, but it happened just so"; de Lint often blurs the distinction...

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