Rains of fishes, chunks of weird ice, odd bits of jewelry and household china – they all fascinated her. She especially liked the sort of thing that was reputed to appear, move about under its own power, and then vanish again: phantom … Odd as in really, really good shape. Odd as in having license plates – when they had them at all – that had not been produced in her own lifetime. Pismo Beach is itself one of those places; an astonishing number of cars from the last two … …

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