Sixty dollars later Jeevan was alone outside his brother’s apartment door, the carts lined up down the corridor. Perhaps, he thought, he should have called ahead from the grocery store. It was one a.m...
She slipped so easily into the folds of his life
Prague.
Kirsten and August walked mostly in silence. A deer crossed the road ahead and paused to look at them before it vanished into the trees. The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hel...
It’s not looking promising for a quick end to the emergency, a newscaster said, understating the situation to a degree previously unmatched in the history of understatement,
If the dreams of the last speaker of Chamicuro won't survive the passage into another language, then what else has been lost? What else that was expressible in that language cannot be said in another?
I believe when you’re speaking English, you’re allowed to refer to it as Prague.
How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place,
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...
Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit von Menschen, nach denen man sich sehnt.
And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and 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 tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom.
A or B, two options present themselves, and you choose the one that seems best at the time.
A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
A fragment for my friend— If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night
A fragment for my friend— If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night She
You. Come here soon. Michaela. If the whole business of life on earth had ever made sense to him, it ceased to at that moment. She unmoored him, her departure made him want to disappear, et cetera—but...
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...