Sami, expecting a tip, smiled and held out his hand. Gur shot him twice and shoved him and his boat out into the current. The boat and disappeared into the river, Gur into the darkness. Late the following afternoon he staggered into Zimbabwe. He had one connection there. One would be enough. That...
He was furious with himself for missing the chance to parachute into Norway. But he was about to get a second chance. In spite of the glider disaster, the British and Americans were still determined to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway. Like the graphite Enrico Fermi used in his Chic...
I asked my sister as we loaded her bag into the back of my car the next morning. We were standing across the street from my apartment where the free street parking was ample. This was one benefit to living out in the sticks. “As much as I love not being able ...
“Do you think old Jeb is putting it to Miss Emma?” asked Hoyt, one of the new hires. “I don’t know, but I wouldn’t mind doing it myself,” said his buddy, Wade. “She is a fine looking woman.” “She is that,” said the first. Tha...
Gummer,” recap of Season One, Episode Nine, in which I realized four constant themes in my work thus far and wrote a song about it. Here are the complete lyrics, to be sung to the tune of “My Favorite Things”: Meryl and Sondheim and Richard Santorum Bettelheim’s witches and Whoopi in Forum Adolf ...
The Ranger, overwhelmed with sadness, contemplated the desolate scene after the battle. Mutilated corpses, torn horribly to pieces by those giant crocodiles, were strewn all over the shore in a sea of blood. They had lost practically the whole of Captain Toral’s group, with only the officer and o...
Shayne had the looks and style to take him to the next level. He was tall and thin, with short hair and pretty eyes. His stage presence was another strong point. His vocal skills weren’t where Monica wanted them to be, but he was young. She thought he was getting better with each performance....
and Friend Go to Court A little more than a year in custody didn’t seem to have hurt the boys at all. A supervised diet and mandatory exercise helped Kevin lose some of his excess poundage, slimming him from obese to merely overweight. The same regimen had the opposite effect on Pierre, who was n...
His lordship was a good listener, she’d already noted, with a talent for making the speaker feel like they received his complete attention. It was infernally appealing. “I was very young,” she went on, before she’d even decided to share the story. L...
After he took her to his suite and arranged for their departure, Cen brought a message from the princess. She thanked Aaron for his visit and indicated Zalia was eager for a positive relationship with the Druid Hall. When next they wanted to use the Zalian gates to the human realm, the druids cou...
I remember only one such sleep, following my firstborn’s delivery by C-section. I was under the influence of morphine and a pure, thorough, body exhaustion. The first course was upward, a mix of things half-heard, only partially understood, and so wrapped in imaginative ribbon. The rattle of a bl...
Ms. Clarkson said. “Fourteen talented Riverside students have entered the Valley Talent Competition. Way to go. Clarissa Eng, a dance teacher from Vancouver, will be in the multipurpose room at lunch today. She will talk about how to make the best of your performance. All the contestants and thei...
‘Plus whatever you made from the street stall you had in the constituency on Saturday morning’. ‘That’s not that great, is it?’ said Martha. ‘I mean are people so consumed with their anti Europeanism that they’re prepared to sacrifice legislation to protect children from p...
She’d napped too much during the day and still wasn’t tired at midnight. They kept their voices to a whisper, even though the sounds of the rain muffled their words, even this close. “Feeling your baby move was incredible.” Pete stared off into the darkness, a wistful look on his face. “Wasn’t it...
I will sleep there tonight. I open the shower door and step inside and turn on the warm water. I’m there a long time until suddenly the water is cold. When I’m walking out of the shower there is Chance standing in my room. I look at him and I can’t imagine what he wants now. His greenish blue eye...