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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... persons after dusk avoided its sinister paths . Beyond Posilippo the road was very solitary and there were byways that led up the hill in which by night you would never meet a soul , but how would you induce a man who had any nerves to ...
... persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement . Ashenden had no illusions about himself and such success in current letters as had come to him had left ...
... persons came in , single men with some occupation in Lucerne and obviously Swiss , and sat down each at his own little table and untied the napkins that at the end of luncheon they had neatly tied up . They propped newspapers against ...