Meet sassy, brave and beautiful Della Martin: 'Why on earth did I agree to this crazy plan?! This multimillionare Jack Bullen had a proposal for me-to pose as his girlfriend so he could avoid an unwanted marriage. I said yes-it was a whole lot...
In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even the sacred...
Our last tale from M. Shayne Bell, “Mrs. Lincoln’s China” (July 1994), was a finalist for the 1995 Hugo award. His beautiful new story evokes the African continent of H. Rider Haggard and other nineteenth-century authors. A continent that was...
“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless ...
Once in a while on Vernon Street, that blind alley of tired sin and lost hopes, someone reaches for the moon.
Like Kerrigan, the stevedore, the old-young man with the strength of three and the secret dreams of a life away from the hell of Vernon...
When the world-war was at its height, wireless messages signed with the name "Pax" had been received at the Naval Observatory at Washington, in which the sender declared him - self capable of controlling the forces of nature. These mysterious...