Morning Tutorial
When she opened her eyes in the morning, she felt Peach in a warm lump behind her, but she saw him first. He was sitting on a chair by the window, naked, looking out through a gap in at the …
The Principle Of Moments
Meeting Dan’s Boss
“Those pills your boss give you, do you know what it was?” Keisha asked, making one of those long slow turns where the highway climbed into the mist, the white fences ticking by against the bright green turf of Kentucky …
Seung Learns About Sorry
Keisha thought she’d go down like a rock, but she didn’t. She kept jolting awake. She hugged Peach tight, drifting off and coming to, rigid, whenever the two men started talking. Seung spoke softly, lost sometimes in the road noise …
Alligator Wrestlers
Seung knelt in the road and watched the truck roll away. He looked at his new bosses and did not bother to react. No point. Lock it down. He could take them, just take the lot, he saw repeated patterns …
Ask the Bartender
It’s the music, or two whiskies on an empty stomach, or unrequited desire, but he can’t settle. He returns from the can to find the place emptying rapidly. He knows how much Dance can’t afford to lose the jacket he’s …
Standards
Drin scrubs the heel of his hand across his eyes. “Sweetheart, what are you–why are you up this time of the night– Oh.”
Another bad dream, no doubt of that, and some time ago. The kitchen smells of cardamom and …
An Even Better Bug
“Well, I’m going to get out and take a look at our bridge abutment here, and see if I can make out anybody coming–” Drin steps out of the Jeep while Barret comments about some writer called Tim Powers. Drin …
Just Love the Smell of Bug Ichor in the Morning
The two men are watching them as they get out of the Jeep, the way a man who has nothing left to lose watches something that he suspects might kill him – half anticipating the worst, half eager. Drin has …
The Man with Absolute Pitch
Greenlaw Tewkes Barret gets a burr in his bonnet. Auren Han gets another ulcer.
Dance gets…well, he’s getting something.
The viola… it’s great. It’s fabulous, Auren. I wish it were mine. “I will take the Ring, though I do not …
FWD to AH, ATTN: TS
Hi teslamomma,
Got yours of the 29th.
Let me know.
I owe ya, thanks!
Pimpernell
ATT: AH
Well, it’s clear from the focal convergence the sloppy photog was taking it from that two-story across the street, can see how grainy …