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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... known to be an agent of the Central Powers and it was most undesirable that he should be on any terms with her but those of frigid courtesy . Ashenden shrugged his shoulders . R. did not think him as clever as he thought himself . But ...
... known it none could have blamed him for shaking in his shoes : R. was not a very nice man to get on the wrong side of . Caypor scraped acquaintance in Zürich with a young Spaniard , Gomez by name , who had lately entered the British ...
... known to grant her favours for anything that did not in some way represent hard cash . Was it possible that she loved him ? It seemed incredible and yet what other explanation was there ? Byring was a young man with whom any woman might ...