By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“I grew dizzy, and an indefinite fear and shrinking were upon me.”

By: Max Brand

“Step up an’ drink to the health of Jim Silent!”

By: Clare Winger Harris

“You cannot conceive of either the end of space or time.”

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“I began to count my steps and carefully measure my paces…”

By: Joshua Glenn

Martha Wells’s NETWORK EFFECT

By: Max Brand

“Dan c’n only die once, but every minute is a death to her!”

By: George Gurdjieff

“What? About what slugs?” asked Beelzebub.

By: Joshua Glenn

Jonathan Lethem’s THE ARREST

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“I was sure that I was moving in a straight direction…”

By: Max Brand

“String him up an’ drill the skunk full of holes.”

By: George Gurdjieff

“You are not yet obliged to pay for your existence.

By: Joshua Glenn

William Gibson’s AGENCY

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

“For some inexplicable reason the picture frets me.”

By: George Gurdjieff

“A very strong ‘mastic’ unaffected by ‘paischakir.'”

By: Max Brand

“They seemed like one being rather than three.”