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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... English ; she speaks English a little and French quite well , but the answers were written entirely in English ; it was good English , but not an Englishman's English , flowery and rather grandilo- quent ; I wondered who was writing ...
... English , by the way , or American ? ' ' English , ' said Ashenden . Ashenden was by nature a very shy person , and he had in vain tried to cure himself of a failing that at his age was unseemly , but on occasion he knew how to make ...
... English he would never let them get a word in . For Mr Harrington was a talker . He talked as though it were a ... English ancestry , but proud too of his American birth , though to him America was a little strip of land along the ...