There was a girl in the laundromat who'd tell your future while you waited for your clothes to dry.
Laundromat Cassandra
Ithaca
Every day she walks to the water's edge and gives gifts to the Sea.
Rider
Rider sits in the dark and listens to the click-clack of the wheels, to the heaving of the engine. He was born here, with the rhythm of the rails in his soul.
A Memory of Green
At first he thought there was something wrong with his lawn, but he soon saw it was everyone's lawns and the trees as well...
In Captivity
I heard once that glass was a liquid. A very slow liquid, creeping in millimeters over centuries...
The Man I Met in Bedlam
I knew a painter once, when I was mad and they shut me in that dreadful place, full of screams and grey walls. I call him a painter. He was a murderer as well, of course...
The Last Boat
The fiddler played with a lifetime's worth of skill (perhaps more), but there was a coldness to his notes and to his eyes, buried in the shadow of his cap.
The Anchorite
Many years ago she sealed herself away, leaving only one small window through which she whispers to her faithful...
The Way of All Feathers
By the year 2100, rubber ducks outnumbered the feathered kind in the wild by millions...
The First Time
It was funny, the things you took for granted, he thought, staring at the sink.
