Historical
Retreat! Retweet! Retreat!
Frankie is twelve years old. He lives in New York City. On the other side of the world, invading Russian troops are blasting cities and killing people like him and his parents and his friends. He can’t sleep. He watches all the streaming news. He obsessively reads #ukraine #kyiv #kherson on Twitter.
By Richard Seltzer3 years ago in Fiction
Senator Warren of Massachusetts
Alternative history. An excerpt from the novel Parallel Lives by Richard Seltzer The story, which begins in an assisted-living facility in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century Boston and London, where there may be unfinished business that residents, through mirror selves, must take care of. As Abe, Mercy. and their friends come under the influence of forces they don't understand, they adopt antique attire, get drunk on two-hundred-year-old wine, and become experts in the lives of their other selves.
By Richard Seltzer3 years ago in Fiction
My Creator's window
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. This window to my creator's world beyond our world, beyond the sky, beyond stars, planets and time itself, can offer a bright and wonderous view or a distorted dystopian and awful promise.
By Novel Allen3 years ago in Fiction
Desperate survivors make final plea for entry into sealed city through last window to the outside world
Desperate survivors make final plea for entry into sealed city through last window to the outside world" The last window to the outside world was a small, grimy window high up on the wall of the city's central control room."
By Paul Smith3 years ago in Fiction
