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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... seemed to raise his own to some more vivid level . It really did seem to him to burn with a pure , gem - like flame . Do people still read Pater ? ' ' I don't know , ' said Ashenden . ' I don't . ' " There was only three months of it ...
... seemed to Ashenden that it was critical and if anything was to be done it must be done quickly . The army was dissatisfied and mutinous , the Government under the weak Kerensky was tottering and held power only because no one else had ...
... seemed to share in the happiness of the happy pair . And it was not only the spring that filled those sick hearts with new hope , the great love that had taken possession of the man and the girl seemed to spread its effulgence on all ...