If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom.
It began with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name 'Indios'.
The trawler plunged into the swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.
These are the things I know are true: My name is LuLing Liu Young. The names of my husbands were Pan Kai Jing and Edwin Young, both of them dead and our secrets gone with them.
On the morning of August 8, 1965, Robert Kincaid locked the door to his small two-room apartment on the third floor of a rambling house in Bellingham, Washington.
First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.
'And then say what? Say, 'Forget you're hungry, forget you got shot inna back by some racist cop -- Chuck was here? Chuck come up to Harlem -- '
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.
On the last day of summer, ten hours before fall, my grandfather took me out to the Wall.
'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
Sunday 1 January. 129 lbs. (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's Day), cigarettes 22, calories 5424.
Hale knew, before he had been in [title location] three hours, that they meant to murder him.
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery.
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
The insuperable gap between east and west that exists in some eyes is perhaps nothing more than an optical illusion.
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