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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... feeling ill , she had taken off the receiver to call for help and then collapsed . The night - porter hurried to fetch the assistant - manager and together they had lifted her back into bed . Then the maid was wakened and the doctor ...
... feeling , he hardly knew why , that Mrs 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 ...
... feeling sorry for her ? The time hung heavy on his hands too . He read a good deal and wrote a little , he hired a canoe and went for long leisurely paddles on the lake ; and at last one morning the clerk at Cook's handed him a letter ...