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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... 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 his mind that ...
... knew what they had said . Did she urge him to go or did she try to dissuade him ? Ashenden watched them again at ... knew what it was that he saw in Caypor's eyes . Fear . It gave him a nasty turn . Caypor didn't want to go to England ...
... knew they said it more in jest that in earnest , but the notion vaguely tickled him . But these were only dreams and he knew that nothing would come of them . He never really chaffered with the thought that when the three months came to ...