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This is a nifty little piece, albeit nothing new to those familiarwith Starfish. It started life as a coda to that book, ultimatelydiscarded except for a paragraph or two that ended up elsewherein the plot. But it's a creepy enough tale in its own right, andstands on its own, and it might even make the point better than theoriginal "A Niche" did. (It certainly does so more efficiently;smaller cast, fewer words, less plot.) Ultimately it came out in OnSpec1in the summer of 1999, coinciding with Starfish's initialrelease