Amaryllis Night and Day
Amaryllis seemed preoccupied. ‘See you in my dreams,’ I said. That got a smile, then she drank about half her whisky and began to cry into the rest of it. ‘What is it?’ I said. ‘What’s the matter?’ She wiped her eyes, blew her...
Alias Grace
My mother and Aunt Pauline were a dead clergyman’s daughters – a Methodist, he was – and it was said their father had done something unexpected with the church money, and after that could not get a position; and when he died they were penniless, and were turned out to...
Homesick For Another World
Malibu I’d gone out on dates before. Nothing really spectacular ever happened. One girl had been a nun when she was younger. I liked her, but she was always talking about herself. It was like she was waiting for something in my face to light up, and nothing ever did....
Lincoln In The Bardo
Suddenly Mr. Bevins did not look well. His flesh was thin as parchment. Tremors ran through his body. hans vollman So many memories were flooding back. I recalled a certain morning. The morning of my— The morning that I— I had seen Gilbert. At the baker’s. Yes. Yes I...