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A Dash of Spring

Jack Finney

First published 1957
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

In their individual homes, an ordinary man and an ordinary woman read the same contrived love story in a glossy magazine -- a story of two strangers meeting on a bus. But when on a bus themselves and given a nearly identical opportunity, the results are drastically different.

Originally published in the collection The Third Level, 1957.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1957 Cover The Third Level Rinehart Collection 188
December 1957 Cover The Third Level Rinehart / SFBC Collection 139
1958 Cover The Clock of Time Eyre & Spottiswoode Collection 139
March 1959 Cover The Third Level Dell Collection 140
January 1960 Cover The Clock of Time The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Collection 139
July 1961 Cover The Clock of Time Panther Collection 114
November 2012 Cover The Clock of Time Gateway / Orion Collection