If there are again towns with streetlights, if there are symphonies and newspapers, then what else might this awakening world contain? Perhaps vessels are setting out even now, traveling toward or awa...
I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction. You know what I mean?No, please e...
He was half-naked in the bed, lying like a starfish. After she got up he always liked to see how much of the bed he could sleep on at once.
He had decided before the accident not to chase them anymore, but the circumstances of the accident made him fear for Lilia's safety. he would never bring her in, not anymore; all he wanted now was to...
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light.
Don’t think of that unspeakable decision, to keep the jet sealed rather than expose a packed airport to a fatal contagion. Don’t think about what enforcing that decision may have required. Don’t think...
Do you remember when you were young and gorgeous? Clark wanted to ask. Do you remember when everything seemed limitless?
Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone.
All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is i...
All of the information in the world is on the Internet, and the Internet is all around you, drifting through the air like pollen on a summer breeze.
A liquid movement below on the tarmac; a cat, hunting in the shadows.
They shared a suspicion that the world might prove, in the end, to have been either a mirage or a particularly elaborate hoax.
The words clarified the problem. He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one an...
Had an idea—too sentimental to speak aloud and he knew none of his divorced friends would ever own up to it—that something must linger, a half-life of marriage, some sense memory of love even if obvio...
You’ve actually just reminded me. I brought you something. She had finally assembled the first two issues of the Dr. Eleven comics, and had had a few copies printed at her own expense. She extracted t...
You can’t argue with them, because they live by an entirely different logic. You come to a town where everyone’s dressed all in white, for example. I’m thinking of a town we visited once just outside...
What a terrible time that was, Clark said softly to an imaginary Robert, practicing for the future. Awful, Imaginary Robert agreed. Remember those days when you were in the airport, and I didn’t know...
Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women whom she’d known a long time ago, and she felt such co...
This had been happening more and more lately, this nodding off unexpectedly, and it left him with an unsettled intimation of rehearsal. You fall asleep for short periods and then for longer periods an...
There was a new heaven and a new earth, the archer whispered. She saw the look on August’s face just afterward and realized that the gunman had been his first—he’d had the colossal good fortune to hav...