In the title story, the aged narrator puzzles over her childhood encounter in an aban- doned farmhouse with a woman (a ghost?)

Often, in those childhood encounters, they'd had the faces of her parents, a fact her analyst had made much of.

You, the lion of Alexander, the man whose lifelong opposition to us has been nurtured by an unfortunate childhood encounter with Reemul.

In her childhood encounter, the Lipul had kept moving in its jerky fashion, taking little notice of the child floating above it.

I also know that I altered the memory of my unsettling childhood encounter with Ronnie.

Rojer has a crippled hand, caused by a childhood encounter with corelings.

Ms. Robison said she remembered a childhood encounter with her godfather in Los Angeles.

Certainly he had always spent a lot of time with the druids, ever since that childhood encounter.

As for scientific purity, Dr. Tyson recalls a memorable childhood encounter with the museum, when he was 8 or 9.

It told of Laura's childhood encounter with Carmilla, an incident near forgotten until years later when the vampire reappeared.