A Cat Called Eternity
A retired intelligence officer moves to a Cotswolds cottage and acquires a black cat that doesn't age — the same cat that's been appearing at the cottage for four hundred years.
Category: Writing (Page 36)
FictionWhen Atlantis Drowned Again
A graduate student finds Atlantis off the coast of Sardinia and discovers stone tablets inside — an 8,000-year-old mathematical warning about rising seas, sealed in a vault by people who knew they were drowning.
FictionThe Corpse Collector’s Son
A mortuary transport driver talks to the dead after every pickup — and when the dead start lingering in his house as cold spots, his twelve-year-old son learns to talk to them too.
FictionChildren Under the Volcano
The Ferrante family gathers every August at their house on Mount Etna — rebuilt three times after lava flows — until a sixteen-year-old's question at breakfast cracks them all open.
FictionThe Cab Driver of Oz
A cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.
FictionSilence in the Vatican Library
A paleographer cataloging sealed manuscripts in the Vatican basement discovers 300 documents proving that the silence in certain churches can speak the words of the Mass without a priest.
FictionThe Prophet of Broken Clocks
Every clock in Aurelio Vega's Montevideo shop is broken, and every one tells the correct time. People come to him not for repairs but for answers that only stopped clocks can give
FictionTango in a War Zone
In a basement milonga during Argentina's Dirty War, a resistance courier dances tango with an intelligence operative who carries a list of seven people scheduled to disappear.
FictionThe Dentist of Mars
Dr. Evelyn Trask is the only dentist on Mars, her market share is 100 percent, and the protein bars are giving the entire colony periodontal disease.
FictionCassandra’s Last Vision
Cursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.
FictionA Garden in Hiroshima
Three generations of women tend a garden behind a house in Hiroshima, growing morning glories in soil that was sterilized by the atomic bomb and refused to stay dead.
FictionThe Robot Who Couldn’t Lie (Version 2)
A manufacturing defect leaves Unit 7 incapable of producing false statements. When it testifies before Congress about the AI industry, it becomes the most trusted voice in the world.