On the afternoon of the fifth day, they rounded a bend in the lake and looked before them to see a forbidding set of mountains rising up to touch the sky with craggy tips. "Those," said the Unicorn, "are the...
When I think of the roof of the world, that place up so high where the blue posts of the sky sit on the earth for support, I feel a thrill that goes with a chill. The Unicorn and the...
The Unicorn's horn gave off a golden glow in the night, illuminating a small circle around them. But what good was a little circle of light, even if it came from within, in this vast high desolation? How could it...
After a long and arduous time of wandering, the little mouse acrobat and the Unicorn came at last to a place where a vast and unfamiliar prospect opened up before their eyes. Beyond the blue walls of glaciers, the hills...
Blanche was still, so still. So, by her side, was Djinnsky, the dark presence, the two of them in the accord of an immobility which seemed also a reservoir in which was contained a promise of motion too vast and...
They were back in exactly the same place from which they had departed. A few last embers glowed red in the fireplace. The dark doors of the antique toy chest were closed. Only in a pink armchair a little girl...
Pascal was five that summer, a demiurge of childhood, unconscious of the life and beauty that brimmed over in him and spilled on everyone who came near, causing each one to smile his or her own smile, compound of memory...
She went up early, three weeks before the solstice. She sat in the green Adirondack chair on the front lawn. She wrestled it forward until it was just three or four yards back from the staircase that led down to...
Although it has never been seen, scientists are in no doubt about the existence of the northern unspotted vuck. "It's like a biological version of the Stealth bomber," says Dr. Albert Tollinger of the University of Minnesota, "with two distinguishing...
Alan Gorschak was out pulling turnips in the garden behind his home when the call came from Stockholm telling him he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Reverie. "At least, I think they were turnips," said Mr. Gorschak....
Greengold's Folly "Elmer Greengold is a throwback to the days when people took housekeeping seriously and political economy meant something." "Elmer Greengold is a pain in the ass." "Both are right," laughs Elmer Greengold, himself, "I have a few simple...
When Znarf Akfak awakened the first orange morning on Meta-4 everything around him seemed familiar and, for that reason, unsettling. He had no memory of how he had arrived at this particular location, but that was not unusual. Znarf was...
This is a story of the far-off Kingdom of Para. Few people from Africa, Europe or the Americas have ever visited Para, for it is located in a wild mountainous region at the base of the towering Himalayas. There are...
Marinka's voice on the phone was high and strained, like a collar caught cat struggling against strangling. Katerina knew immediately something was terribly wrong. Katerina lived in Delaware in sight of the ocean. The wind had been blowing in from...
They took off for Buenos Aires from Kennedy at dusk of a perfect late October day. Sixty-nine year old Jeremiah Sapir had breakfasted on black coffee and strawberries that sparkled like rubies in cream in his room at the Essex...
