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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... stopped sending me into Germany at the beginning of the war , but I learned what I could from the other travellers . I kept my ears open in restaurants and beer - cellars , and I read the German papers . I got a lot of amusement out of ...
... stopped and Ashenden felt that his eyes were turned in his direction . Mrs Caypor had noticed the arrival of a stranger and had drawn her husband's attention to it . Ashenden turned the page of the book he was pretending to read , but ...
... stopped , not because he had said all he had to say , but because he was out of breath . He noticed also that the ambassador , desiring to talk rather than to listen , heard him with a politeness that was strained . But he had made this ...