“How will I recognize you?”
“That is of no importance.”
“How will you recognize me?”
“Because of the coin under your tongue.”
A woman feels all her objects are a heavy burden except for her copies of Joyce’s Ulysses. This, she realizes, is quite a decadent statement about the world.
A fisherman visits his younger brother in the city and feels uncomfortable waiting outside his office.
A police spy married an activist he met while undercover in the environmental protest movement and then went on to have children with her.
A world in which everyone unfailingly tells the truth; they don’t even know what fiction is. Every thought, however humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished.
A male model was taken into police custody hours after his companion, a celebrity Portuguese television journalist, was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators seek at least four men who were videotaped sexually assaulting at least 10 women who appear to be severely disabled, including women in a care home.
A man’s wife leaves him. To impress his wife and make her see him in a different light, the man enlists to Iraq as a war correspondent.