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Charlie Albright (top) and Holly Hyun Choe.
Though best known for novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, the French author Jules Verne started out as a short story writer.
One of his earliest forays was “A Voyage in a Balloon,” a fictional escapade that begins when a reckless stranger suddenly leaps into the car of the narrator’s hot air balloon. With little regard for the pilot’s or his own welfare, the stranger insists that they
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