AshendenA thief, languishing in prison for stealing moments, escapes and becomes a chronometric fugitive. Women wait in a long, endless line, night and day, without knowing what is at the beginning of the line. An otherworldly marble called the Ustek Cloudy passes through the hands of Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, and D. B. Cooper just before they each disappear off the face of the earth. Whether they are called fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, or parodies, the stories in this collection—the first from Gay Terry—blend the real and the fantastic in an imaginative and mischievous way. Written in the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter, and Edgar Allan Poe, these contemporary fables present remarkable characters trapped in unusual situations. |
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... Anastasia Alexandrovna was a woman of character : when she had a tooth- ache Vladimir Semenovich suffered the agonies of the damned , and when her heart was wrung by the suffering of her unhappy country Vladimir Semenovich might well ...
... Anastasia Alexandrovna said she felt dizzy , so she took off her hat and leaned her head on Ashenden's shoulder . He put his arm round her waist . ' Keep quite still , won't you ? ' she said . When they got on to the boat she went down ...
... Anastasia Alexandrovna talked over the situation . Ashenden was depressed because all his careful schemes had come to nothing , but Anastasia Alexan- drovna was excited and she hazarded every sort of guess about the outcome of this new ...