The Intruder
Pullman awoke in the middle of the night, listening. He did not have to turn over to know that his wife was in bed beside him. He could feel the …
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The Whole Story
I don’t like tobogganing. The journey down is too fast, the return slog too slow
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Two Fables
A DIVIDED MAN For twenty years in a row the mechanic Tito from the town of Vlasenica in Bosnia had been named the best worker in Goose Feathers factory. Then …
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Red Dog, Red Dog
The house where I was born and died nudged up against Ranch Road. No whisper of smoke lifted from the chimney. The day had been hot, the doors and windows …
Read MoreTom Cruise at Lake Vostok
It takes a full month to reach Vostok Station by tractor train, beginning on the nightmare coast of Antarctica and ending at shacks that stick out of the snow like …
Read MoreThe Double Knot
I’m in a bag. I’m in a straitjacket in a bag. It’s a sky-blue laundry bag that Angie my ex-wife made me, and there are two, maybe three hundred people …
Read MoreThe Getaway
The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads through the forest to the town with the single …
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The Eagle Has Landed
part 1: Two Operatives Seize the Road As he pulled out of the last rest stop before Waco, his rental car full of Al Gore’s overpriced $2 gas, Dick Cheney …
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