Despite the fact that they were indistinguishable from the building she lived in, the eight-year-old had no particular awareness of them – just as she had no real sense of the many apartments within her building, identical to her own. For Cynth, the two towers that completed the three points of t...
Null said that was desirable, if Stake wanted the general population to know he was under the protection of the Muties.“The deaths started about four months ago,” Null said. “But we’re not really sure how many have died, because it’s not like the warden has announced what’s going on…we only know ...
Nocturnal Emissions BEDROCK Wilma and Fred will end up dead In Bedrock Their bones will be found all stuck in the ground In Bedrock Barney and Fred will have a fight Hit each other on the head with a trilobite Lay like Pompeii clay and turn bleached white In Bedrock Dr. Leakey would get freaky...
—Anne Sexton He made his escape under the cover of rain, I realized later. And before he invaded my apartment, he first practiced his escape by invading my dreams. The dreams were of soaring; above great forests, pastures, ancient villages and modem cities…above landscapes totally alien, as...
On my fifth day in Hell, I found a praying mantis. It was during a break between classes, though that should not be taken to mean a break for rest. We were merely waiting for the arrival of our next instructor, and along with many of my classmates I had wandered into a courtyard of the university...
They had been designed that way, in the factory city of Tartarus where most of the Demons in this region of Hades were mass produced. The Buddhas were vast, dinosaur-like travesties of humanity, nine feet tall and wider around. Patrick thought that they made sumo wrestlers look as if they might b...
de Paris, 1815, who was the first to observe – or at least, to document – the condition that has come to be known by modern physicians as Sympathetic Identity Disorder. In the case in question, Beclard examined a seventeen-year-old Marie Lambert, who appeared to be in perfect health, but whose fa...
Mother was towing him through the glass-encased jungle when he spotted a woman weeping by a fountain. She was on parole from heaven—gold as picture-book August, eyes the blue of ghosts, with bored fans stirring her hair, a restless nimbus. Coffin’s ten-year-old heart doubled in age at the sight o...