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Short story by Isaac Asimov
In a gauzy twilight where suburban sprawl meets the uncanny, Springfield’s tram — old, rickety, and stubbornly musical — glides through streets that remember more than their names. “Tram Pararam,” a phrase half-chant, half-onomatopoeia, becomes the city’s private liturgy: the tram’s bell, the rhythm of its wheels, and the murmured gossip of passengers fuse into a single continuous refrain that reveals as much about the town as the characters who live in it.