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Are You Jealous (part six)
Are You Jealous (part six) Reiff, white hair in minimalist proportion to brow, brow deeply furrowed with the demands of craftsmanship, and coming cliff-like over blue eyes…also was capable of emerging from a trap, it appeared. “You know me?” “Who else am I expecting?” If this […]
Are You Jealous (part five)
Are You Jealous (part five) Her grandmother, two months dead, had been the wardrobe’s embodiment. Love was not her feeling for the clock. She had used it, pointed to it, opened the door, closed the door. While the clock, the splendid clock, the painted clock, the chiming […]
Are You Jealous (part four)
Are You Jealous (part four) He looked at the next email, Emil Reiff’s request for payment. He looked twice. The clock gave a brief twinkling note, as it struck the half-hour. How could the repairs have cost so much? Reiff had not itemized; he extenuated nothing…but he […]
Are You Jealous (part three)
Are You Jealous (part three) He saw an unfamiliar name. He saw Presby’s name in the subject line. He was unsurprised to see a spare deconstructed logo behind an outline of city towers… Which drew itself further to become a chair and desk. The background was a […]
Are You Jealous (part two)
Are You Jealous (part two) “What do you think?” Eva asked. Since he hadn’t been listening, he countered with a question of his own. “Have you decided to sell it?” “My clock?” Coquettish hand to heart. “I’ll never sell my clock. McFadden says it’s only middle-range. But […]
Are You Jealous (part one)
Are You Jealous (part one) Gabriel heard Eva’s voice…her put-on voice, he called it. She spoke this way to delivery people, sing-song, thanking them, ushering them out the door. He heard the door close, whoosh into its frame followed by the thunk of the bolt. He heard […]
Story: Sympathy for the Torturer (conclusion)
Sympathy for the Torturer (part six) As soon as Anton sank into an upper-tier seat, close to the steps, he was joined by a uniformed officer. So it had…his badge, traveling on his person, signaled his violation. “If I don’t get off. If I only ride, and come back […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-two)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-two) One electric bulb stuck in a joist-mounted socket over the steps. The rest lit by windows, or by nothing. But at the landing Tovey had cached two kerosene lanterns. He struck a match, lighting one, thrust this at Powell and lit […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-one)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-one) He could not persuade himself he had a choice. He backed off waving, Davis Drybrook’s suits over an arm, trammeling the gesture Alfin had probably not seen. You could have insisted you do your own shopping, Powell tried. Told Alfin you’d […]
The Totem-Maker (part eighty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part eighty-eight) Alchas fled. He settled into a shepherd’s hut, left desolate for the war that raged in his land. He made traps for birds and fashioned a fishing net, dug roots…and as the year waned, […]