Creation Lake
Neantderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were prone to addiction, too, and especially smoking. Although it was likely, he said, that these noble and mysterious Thals (as he sometimes referred to the Neanderthals) extracted nicotine from the...
Damned If I Do
Randall Randall "I only want one egg this morning," Randall said. "Bacon or sausage?""Sausage.""We're out of sausage," Claudia said."Then why did you ask me?"She put the bacon on the counter next to the carton of eggs. "I wanted to give you a choice.""But I didn't...
Orbital
In the cosmic calendar of the universe and life, with the Big Bang happening on January 1st, almost fourteen billion years ago, when a supercharged universe-dense speck of energy blew open at the speed of faster-than-light and a thousand trillion degrees Celsius, an...
Albert Angelo
The tablemanners are appalling by Mr. Coulter’s standards. You notice him correcting one eight-year-old girl for some time. You do not attempt to do anything similar yourself: these children and their manners are the product of their environment, and therefore suit...
The Heart In Winter
On Wyoming Street in the evening a patent Irish stumbled by, some crazy old meathead in a motley of rags and filthy buck-skin, wild tufts of hair sticking out the ears, the eyes burning now like hot stars, now clamped shut in a kind of ecstasy, and he lurched and...