title: Flamenco Sketches
author:  Loren Kleinman 
description: "Kleinman introduces herself as an innovator- breaking into her art with hopes of finding a niche of her own." -- <i>Julie Kimmel, Spire Magazine, Spring 2003</i>
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  Contents
  
  
  [Introduction](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor000)
  
  
  [The Thing in the Stone](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor001)
  
  
  [The World of the Red Sun](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor002)
  
  
  [Skirmish](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor003)
  
  
  [Aesop6](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor004)
  
  
  [The Hangnoose Army Rides to Town!](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor005)
  
  
  [Univac: 2200](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor006)
  
  
  [The Creator](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor007)
  
  
  [The Spaceman’s Van Gogh](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor008)
  
  
  [Hunch](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor009)
  
  
  [Construction Shack](Untitled-3.xhtml#_idTextAnchor010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction
  
  
  Clifford D. Simak: Seeker After the Truth
  
  
  “‘His world sounds like a dismal one,’ she said. ‘Dismal and holy. The two so
  often go together.’”
  
  
  —Clifford D. Simak, in Special Deliverance
  
  
  Most people who have read a fair amount of Clifford D. Simak’s fiction wi