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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... things , ' thought Ashenden , ' it's cheap and tawdry fiction ' ) - and she had been seized with a desire to do something for what was after all her own . No one was quite himself just then and patriotism ( in ... thing that 41 MISS KING.
... thing I should like to ask . I think you have some heart . ' ' Whatever I can do for you , you may be sure I will . ' ' What are they going to do with his things ? ' ' I don't know . Why ? ' Then she said something that confounded ...
... thing out of it , and she knows a thing or two , I bet . ' Ashenden , who saw most of them , knew them better than any of the others . Templeton at last had taken him into his confidence . He was rather amused at himself . ' Rum thing ...