A Tooth for a Tooth
If I could access memories of other lifetimes, would I recognize possibilities that are slipping by unnoticed in this one? Does George Santayana’s maxim—...
Monthly Archives: October 2022
The Hour has Grown Late
I had been on this planet for less than a single turn around its sun, when I knew that my predecessor had fallen to...
Farmer James Goes to Town
Farmer James had been bitter ever since his pigs had all succumbed to an epidemic that swept through the heartland and–like the hand of...
A Sudden Walk
At this hour on a Sunday evening, I would ordinarily have finished the dishes, locked the front door and settled in with a book...
Stories of the Borderlands
Three books I’ve been reading in the past week each invoke, in different ways, the borders that show up in life. Earlier this week,...