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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... letter he saw that even through her rouge she was very pale . It was the letter of a person not much used to expressing herself by means of pen and ink , but it was well enough , and when towards the end , starting to say how much she ...
... letter he is to say that it is not much good as she is packing her trunk and leav- ing Thonon . ' He saw the letter handed over and the instructions given and then walked back to his little house in the country . The next boat on which ...
... letter . It was from R. It had all the appearance of a business communication , but between the lines he read a good deal . Dear Sir , [ it began ] The goods , with accompanying letter , dispatched by you from Lucerne have been duly ...