Feel from to skip along to the next Brasil themed post if you like. I just can't stop reading this stuff.
A collection of short stories ranging from the unique to the obscure.
Slow Sculpture, tells the story of a woman, suffering from breast Cancer who ends up in the orchard of a rather confusing man. It seems the gentleman in question is a mechanic/doctor/carpenter/botanist/etc and it jst so happens, if she promises to keep her Gob shut, he's got the cure to what ails her.
By the Falls is told as a conversation piece, based on an interview between a journalist and the old man that lives under the water fall. In this world, the land below the waterfall, the people are oblivious to life above. Curious to some extent, by ambivalent in equal measure, even when the occasional stray pet washes up on the shore or a house floats by.
Purely for the British readers, check out In The Queue.
Not all great stories, but this collection (edited by Clifford Simak- Why call them back from Heaven?) is worth a flick through and the £2 you'll find it for in your local charity shop.
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