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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... agent in the Intelligence Department during the First World War . I gave him the name of Ashenden . Since they are connected by this character of my invention I have thought it well , not- withstanding their great length , to put them ...
... agent of his had come to see him in his rooms ; it was only by a lucky chance that he was in , for he had no appointment with him , and the agent's instructions were to come to the hotel only in a case of urgent importance . He told ...
... agent , but it entailed besides the changing of a safe and simple code . R. was not pleased . But R. was not the man to let any desire of revenge stand in the way of his main object , and it occurred to him that if Caypor was merely ...