“Forty-Nine” and “Fifty”
Forty-Nine Even back then, everybody understood immediately. Even people walking past him on the street couldn't help but roll their eyes. It was a…
Intro to Hell
Having shrugged it loose so long ago---having lived in peace and plenitude forever, having eaten manna in the morning and sipped ambrosia in the…
Punchline
She had lovely blue pupils; her irises expanded at important times; she had a cat whose name was also Emma with rare golden fur which was the color…
“Fourteen” and “Seventeen”
Fourteen All his life, he'd had a dim awareness of his own stupidity and laziness. From moment to moment, it drew nearer or hung back, like a panther…
Eleven
No special circumstances in their meeting; nothing impressed itself into their memories. Only later, when their two lives began to somehow tie…
The Frog-Tower
Well, what is a frog-tower, after all? Nobody outside of Iceland, it seems, has ever heard of them, and even those from outside my home province are…
Gorilla Glass
The story of the stain-resistant gorilla glass that currently encases the 2018 Apple/Samsung device that you hold in your very hands, today, at this…
