Isabella of Castile Answers her Mail by James Morrow

I’m not sure what to make of the title. I want to say it’s non-indicative of the story, but it’s Continue reading →

The Other Two by Edith Wharton

This story’s from the point of view of an older gentleman, newly married to a young twice-divorced woman. It was Continue reading →

A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch

Juliette is a seventeen year old girl in the far future. Her bedroom walls are covered with many panes of Continue reading →

Two Perfect Thefts from Seamark and Sinclair Lewis

Here are two stories so similar to each other it makes me wonder whether there’s a decades-old case of plagiarism Continue reading →

The Rag Thing by Donald A. Wollheim

It would have been all right if spring had never come. During the winter nothing had happened and nothing was Continue reading →

A Birch Tree, A White Fox by Elena Arsenieva

There is a planet on which you cannot speak. It is a desert with a breathable atmosphere, speckled with oases. Continue reading →

The Gift of the Prodigal by Peter Taylor

This appears to be a story studied in class, given that a couple of Q&A websites have posted questions like: Continue reading →

The Million-Dollar Wound by Dean Whitlock

While technically taking place in Bolivia, the feel of the setting oozes Vietnam. The U.S. has a draft in place, Continue reading →