“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”
― Laughter in the DarkJohn Ashbery
The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...
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Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the wat...
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from Book One Custom of the Country 1 "Undine Spragg!-how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely wrinkled hand heavy ...
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from All Down Darkness Wild After some quiet introductions, he nodded towards a thicket of trees and started walking, keeping his distance...