Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" tells of her life in and escape from the 'Demon…
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The "Bestiary" narrates pre-adolescent Isabel's summer vacation with her cousin Nino and ... a tiger.
Brothers Geronimo and Carlo travel the roads of 19th century Italy, entertaining passers-by with song, but one plants a seed…
Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" considers the ethical effects of the consulation with a paraself, a self…
G. Keller's "The Little Dance Legend" is a quizzical story about Musa, a dancer among the saints whose dance and…
William Trevor's "Beyond the Pale" tells of four friends visiting an idyllic Irish island, on the occasion of the return…