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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... Caypor scraped acquaintance in Zürich with a young Spaniard , Gomez by name , who had lately entered the British secret service , by his nationality inspired him with confi- dence , and managed to worm out of him the fact that he was ...
... Caypor seized the dog by the fore - legs and ducked him once and ducked him twice . There was a struggle , a flurry and a splash- ing . Caypor lifted him out of the bath . ' Now go to mother and she'll dry you . ' Mrs Caypor sat down ...
... Caypor was telling one then . Her manner perhaps was not quite as indifferent as you would have expected when she was mentioning a fact that could be of no interest to Ashenden . It flashed across his mind that Caypor had been summoned ...