Ghosts
Wake up with your head on the passenger next to you… The fantasy of the person you love Is a ghost. Nothing of life manifests In the fantasy of the person you love. No sweat or disagreement or delight Will complicate your imaginings. And so how poor a reflection of...
The Corrections
“Russia went bankrupt in August,” Gitanas said. “Maybe you heard? Unlike our elections, this was widely reported. This was economic news. This mattered to the investor. It also mattered to Lithuania. Our main trading partner now has crippling hard-currency debts and a...
The Man Who Was Thursday
When Gabriel Syme found himself finally established in a chair, and opposite to him, fixed and final also, the lifted eyebrows and leaden eyelids of the Professor, his fears fully returned. This incomprehensible man from the fierce council, after all, had certainly...
The Malay Archipelago
The Dyaks all declare that the Mias [Orangutan] is never attacked by any animal in the forest, with two rare exceptions; and the accounts I received of them are so curious that I give them nearly in the words of my informants, old Dyak chiefs, who had lived all their...
Dark Star Safari
I got a glimpse of two men in dusty robes, their faces hidden by bands of cloth, standing in the road, with rifles held upright, firing into the air. Two things happened then. First, and startlingly, the man crouched beside me - a soldier - lifted his rifle and began...