Hunters In The Snow

Hunters In The Snow

Kenny swore and threw down his hat. “This is the worst day of hunting I ever had, bar none.” He picked up his hat and brushed off the snow. “This will be the first season since I was fifteen I haven’t got my deer.” “It isn’t...
The 100% Perfect Girl

The 100% Perfect Girl

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighbourhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her...
Limbo

Limbo

The Death Of LullyTowards evening they received a visit from the captain. He was a large, handsome man, with gold earrings glinting from among a bush of black hair. “Divine Providence,” he remarked sententiously, after the usual courtesies had passed,...
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths

It is said by men worthy of belief (though Allah’s knowledge is greater) that in the first days there was a king of the isles of Babylonia who called together his architects and his priests and bade them build him a labyrinth so confused and so subtle that the...
You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity

“I want to marry this country,” I said. “It’s a good country,” Hand said. “I want to spend a lifetime here.” “Yeah.” “I could do it.” “Right.” And my mind leaped ahead, skipping and whistling. In...
The Corrections

The Corrections

After Christmas Denise moved to Brooklyn and went to work in a new restaurant, and in April she sent Enid a plane ticket for her birthday. Enid thanked her and said she couldn’t possibly leave Alfred, it would not be right. Then she went and enjoyed four...