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The fabric of time and space have been ripped apart by humanity. But nobody seems to care; everyone is involved in the latest fad, an illegal pastime called The Game. Legend speaks of the Unknown King, who supposedly is coming to set things right, but time, literally, is running out.With the fabric of reality ripping at the seams, things come into existence without antecedent cause, or wink out of existence for no apparent reason. Clocks start running...
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La culpa conduce una patinadora ciega y jubilada sobre la muerte de su marido a volver al pueblo donde ella fue levantada, esperando morir. Pero el olvido no la tomará; ella comienza a oír historias susurrado a ella de las paredes y los pisos de madera de hongo - una especie de árboles desde hace algún tiempo dieron extinto por la humanidad.Un vendedor ambulante, sobre el corredor de la muerte, de algún modo evita la prisión por vía de una...
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These stories frequently border on the improbable, if not the outright fantastic; I have been lifelong a writer of stories that leave behind the mundane, ordinary, "realistic" world of our everyday experience, and I believe that such stories can pull our minds out of the ruts of culturally conditioned thinking and propel us into new ways of understanding and perhaps even of being.The common theme, I believe, is the idea of sainthood.But a saint, to...
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Un train de fret. Neige sur des yeux imperturbables. Virevoltant. Tachyons. Cerfs-volants. Un étranger qui n'est pas.La culpabilité conduit une patineuse veuve retraitée depuis la mort de son mari au village o elle a été élevée, sans l'esprit pour vivre encore. Mais l'oubli ne la prend pas ; elle commence à entendre dire des histoires cuchotées de murs et de planchers – bois de fongus pris d'une espèce d'arbre longtemps rendu éteint par...
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The Sun is sputtering and guttering with only a pallid reddish light. Dark night has nearly completed its victory over day. What few human beings are left cower in a last village awaiting the eventual death of the world.Two Hunters struggle for supremacy over a female of a nonhuman race.A noah builds a sailing ship to escape to the stars in an attempt to evade the end of the Universe.And then a miracle; no one remembers the last time a child has been...
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Young as he is, Adam understands that being king would shackle him more tightly than being the lowest slave.He watches birds and clouds pass by overhead as if this land surrounded by an impassable Wall is less than nothing.What is out there - the destroying chaos they warn him about, or mysteries beyond his imagination?He runs away from kingship and seeks the imposing shadowy presence of that final brambled cliff of masonry.This is the first volume...
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Across a landscape blasted by war, littered with still-crawling body parts and computer-driven fighting machines that continue to fire at random, a former soldier wanders, not really alive and not really dead, finding he has the unwanted power to heal.Accompanied by his dozen despicably loathesome disciples, companioned first by Sister Clare the young mother abbess, and then by Sappho the beautiful violet-haired poet, John Boanerges seeks his own...
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A stripper loves a swinging lightbulb. An explorer encounters the Face of God. The accidental inventor of streaking. Children dig a hole to China. After his death a father's storytelling talent is discovered. A couple find the way to have a perfect relationship. A soldier at the front writes the world's greatest poem. A woman is haunted by her own reflection. A dying man feels ever so much better when his family has gone.Here is a collection of short...
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"Dreams are essential to me. I do my best to pay attention to them. Not only do I often write them down, but I think about them for years afterwards. It is occasionally made clear to me that they are meant to be turned into stories or poems or plays, or even songs. ...Dreams can be funny, irritating, frightening, profound, exciting, and everything else – but always sacred. Some of these dreams have been clearly prophetic, some came at significant...
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A sculptor returns from a tired bitter war to Paris - or a dream of Paris - and the glimpsing visions of the actress Argent de Resznay. But then she disappears and in her memory he begins to sculpt her reality.The government, meanwhile, prepares a device that will shut down the unconscious mind - and with it not only all resistance to authority, but any vestige of the creative spirit in humanity.The sculpted reality of Argent may be the Goddess Who...
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