![]() ![]() In the coffee shop on West Washington, the witches meet like chary cats. “ The Witches of Athens,” Strange Horizons (Audio version at Cast of Wonders) Some mornings he rises and goes straight to the piano, and on these days, the power under his skin is like a great beast uncurling: one of Delacroix’s painted tigers, all long, loose muscles and shining pelt. One person believes that the disease ravaging the corn belt is a government experiment gone awry. When I pick Louisa up from school, All Things Considered is on the radio, playing a round table discussion about the virus. ![]() “Homegrown Tomatoes,” Escape Pod (first appeared in The Red Volume) Suspicious, animalic notes suggesting shit, cruelty, pain, and sex. He used real castoreum, they said, and hyraceum, and musk. ![]() People said he had a source for genuine ambergris, for civet still scraped from the testicles of cats. “The Dirty American,” Nightmare (first appeared in The Orange Volume) Why are your letters coming now? Is our correspondence at the mercy of some cruel, capricious demon? I don’t subscribe to the superstitions of my father’s family, nor the piety of my mother’s, but the appearance of a letter in my coat pocket, nearly fifteen years too late? No earthly explanation does it justice. An unoriginal phrase, ‘Who the devil.’ Yet it chills me. ![]()
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