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MISSED

By Orson Scott Card

Tim Bushey was no athlete, and if at thirty-one middle age wasn't

there yet, it was coming, he could feel its fingers on his spine. So

when he did his hour of exercise a day, he didn't push himself,

didn't pound his way through the miles, didn't stress his knees.

Often he relaxed into a brisk walk so he could look around and see

the neighborhoods he was passing through.

In winter he walked in mid-afternoon, the warmest time of the day.

In summer he was up before dawn, walking before the air got as hot

and wet as a crock pot. In winter he saw the school buses deliver

children to the street corners. In summer, he saw the papers getting

delivered.

So it was five-thirty on a hot summer morning when he saw the

paperboy on a bicycle, pedaling over the railroad tracks and up

Yanceyville Road toward Glenside. Most of the people delivering

papers worked out of cars, pitching the papers out the far window.

But there were a few kids on bikes here and there. So what was so

odd about him that Tim couldn't keep his eyes off the kid?

He noticed a couple of things as the kid chugged up the hill. First,

he wasn't on a mountain bike or a street racer. It wasn't even one

of those banana-seat bikes that were still popular when Tim was a

kid. He was riding one of those stodgy old one-speed bikes that were

the cycling equivalent of a '55 Buick, rounded and lumpy and heavy

as a burden of sin. Yet the bike looked brand-new.

And the boy himself was strange, wearing blue jeans with the cuffs

rolled up and a short-sleeved shirt in a print that looked like ...

no, it absolutely was. The kid was wearing clothes straight out of

"Leave It to Beaver." And his hair had that tapered buzzcut that

left just one little wave to be combed up off the forehead in front.

It was like watching one of those out-of-date educational films in

grade school. This kid was clearly caught in a time warp.

Still, it wouldn't have turned Tim out of his planned route -- the

circuit of Elm, Pisgah Church, Yanceyville, and Cone -- if it hadn't

been for the bag of papers saddled over the rack on the back of the

bike. Printed on the canvas it said, "The Greensboro Daily News."

Now, if there was one thing Tim was sure of, it was the fact that

Greensboro was a one-newspaper town, unless you counted the weekly

"Rhinoceros Times," and sure, maybe somebody had clung to an old

canvas paper delivery bag with the "Daily News" logo -- but that bag

looked new.

It's not as if Tim had any schedule to keep, any urgent

appointments. So he turned around and jogged after the kid, and when

the brand-new ancient bicycle turned right on Glenside, Tim was not

all that far behind him. He lost sight of him after Glenside made

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