to be gone through. He felt nothing. Numb. "Satisfied?" "Yeah." ... over onto his hands and knees, another time he sidestepped a gnarled tallow root and caught his foot in ... mattered, in two words. The body lay just at the water's edge, near the reeds. The late sunlight ...

crews. Except where a far-distant granite island seems to float against the sky, the northern horizon is ... dripping wet and laughing, warming in the sun, out of the water for a moment on that long-gone fragment of ... It's a phenomenon anyone who has lingered in the woods on sunny days knows. Leaves, even dead ones, ...

to describe our planet and its distance from the sun, and then he says to his chief, 'Oh, ... scum on the surface of an in­ significant planet that goes around a tiny star, one of billions of suns ... would have been pleased that modern astronomy makes his map not the size of Rhode Island but of the ...

to describe our planet and its distance from the sun, and then he says to his chief, 'Oh, ... scum on the surface of an in­ significant planet that goes around a tiny star, one of billions of suns ... would have been pleased that modern astronomy makes his map not the size of Rhode Island but of the ...