The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
Horty Bluett is only eight years old, but his short life has already been utterly miserable. One day, after suffering at the hands of his classmates and his adoptive parents, he runs off and joins the carnival. The only thing he carries is his sole possession — a jack-in-the-box doll named Junky. Junky has hard shiny eyes and Horty gets nervous and sick when Junky isn’t around.
At the carnival, Horty finally finds acceptance among some of society’s outcasts. For the first time in his life,
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