Gene Wolfe's INNOCENTS ABOARD

 

• Short stories without filler. Art thou not entertained?!
• Decidedly eerie, gave me the skeevies
• wolves, Greeks, ghosties, demonic canes, vengeful gods, fair maidens, and time travel...if it's fantastical, it's here (except for elves. They were conspicuously absent.)

There

the trenches are glowing
and it’s there that you’ll find your
most indigenous mountains

your fauna and fixtures
your dry salvation, there you’ll
learn movement doesn’t

need punctuation, there you’ll

                                        give up that precious separate
                                             the catalog of wrongs

                                          you carry like a scarecrow
                                           everywhere you go, there

                                            you’ll see how the heat

                                           of every possible sequel
                                           burns into the ozone with
                                             or without you, there

                                                 you’ll learn that
                                                truth is only truth
                                                     by residue

Peter Schwartz