Jan 30, 2014 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
The Garden and the Tower: Early Visions of the New World was divided into two parts of approximately equal length, “The Myth of Paradise” and “The Myth of Babel.” The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with...
Jan 11, 2014 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 The news came down to the prisoners that after lunch they would be allowed to go outside. It had been a week since Zeitoun had seen the sun. During the hour they were allowed in the yard, Zeitoun tried to jog, but felt light-headed. He walked...
Oct 20, 2013 | Featured, Lies, Truth & Lies |
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...
Sep 21, 2013 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
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...
Jul 21, 2013 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
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,...
Jun 10, 2013 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
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...