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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... Stories first published in three volumes in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1951 Published in four volumes in Penguin Books in Great Britain 1963 The volume published as Collected Short Stories , Volume 3 in Penguin Books in the ...
... stories appeared , is a poor story - teller . It starts a story at haphazard long before the begin- ning , rambles on inconsequently , and tails off , leaving loose ends hanging about , without a conclusion . The works of an agent in ...
... Stories , ' replied Ashenden . ' Detective stories ? ' ' No. ' ' Why not ? They are the only ones I read . If I were ... story is that the mystery should in the end be solved and the criminal brought to justice . ' ' If your murder is as ...