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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... don't want to force myself upon you . I don't know why the maid put my coffee on your table . ' ' Please sit down , ' said Ashenden . ' It's very good of you . I've lived so long on the Continent that I'm always forgetting that my ...
... don't understand a word he says and I don't want to understand . If the Russians want us to look upon them as a civilized people , why don't they talk a civilized language ? Tell him that I am Mr John Quincy Harrington and I'm ...
... don't really have much time for reading . I talk to people . You meet all sorts here , you know . They come and they go . Some- times they go because they think they're cured , but a lot of them come back , and sometimes they go because ...