The interview had gone well. Too well, thought Block. There had been none of the probing questions, the challenges to his veracity that Block expected from a legitimate investigation. Perhaps they were only observing form, going through the motions to give the appearance of due process. It had all been too easy, too polite. Government [...]
Provincial Minds
The Doctor had breathtaking eyes. Two teardrop-shaped orbs the absolute black of a dead universe. His gaze was both deep and pointed, as if through it passed an invisible line stretching outward past the farthest reaches of creation and inward to the infinitesimal depths of the self. His brows, straight and sharp, slanted upwards from [...]
My Second Major Breakup
Editor’s Note: The following piece is among the short stories to be published in The Absent Traveler: A Novella & Other Stories by Randall DeVallance. The Absent Traveler, an Atticus Books Trade Paperback Original, is due to be released at the end of 2010. She said she’d met a violin-maker from Italy and had fallen [...]
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