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  • 褪焦-Fading-Focus
    洗手间的荧光灯管坏了一根。剩下的那根发出持续的嗡嗡声,频率很低,像某种昆虫在墙里振翅。 姚之之站在洗手台前。水已经很凉了。她把手伸进去又抽出来,试了第三次才确定水管确实不供热。泡沫在掌心发灰。洗面奶是剧组发的,便宜的货,香精味盖不住底下的化工气息。 水龙头没有拧紧。水滴落在瓷盆里。一滴。两滴。三滴。间隔均匀。她盯着看了一会儿,数到十七的时候放弃了。 她在镜子里看到自己。素颜。黑眼圈比来横店那天明显了。头发扎得松散,两缕碎发贴在腮边。她伸手去拨,手指上还有没冲干净的粉底。 走廊里有人。脚步声停在了门外。 她没有动。继续挤洗面奶。第二管了,只剩指甲盖那么一点。她用指腹蹭着瓶壁,把最后那点灰色膏体刮下来。 门外的脚步声没有走。 "跑错剧场了?" 陆青北的声音。不高。不带情绪。像在念一份道具清单。 姚之之的背脊僵硬了。她转过去,手还在水龙头底下冲。水流过手腕,冰凉。 "嗯。"她说。...
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  • The Echo of a Dying Star
    The mahogany desk in Dr. Alistair Thorne's study was cluttered with leather-bound journals and brass instruments that seemed to vibrate with a frequency only he could hear. Outside, London was a smudge of grey and charcoal, the fog pressing against the windowpanes like a living thing, seeking entry. Thorne did not look at the city; he looked at the equation. For twenty years, Thorne had pursued...
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  • The Last Iron Knight
    The first shell fell at three minutes past midnight. Klaus Richter felt it before he heard it—a deep, tectonic shudder that traveled up through the concrete of his basement shelter and into his bones. Then the ceiling collapsed. Then the world turned to fire and thunder. He woke in darkness, dust filling his mouth like ground glass, the taste of pulverized brick and something sweeter—burning...
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  • The Probability of a Ghost
    I live in a room in Paris that is exactly four meters by three meters. I translate technical manuals from German to French—a job that requires the total erasure of the self. I am a ghost who translates the instructions for machines. Three years ago, a man died in the hallway outside my door. He was a nameless wanderer, a man of no consequence. I had given him a blanket and a thermos of soup for...
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  • "Welcome home, Mr. Arthur," she said.
    # The Keeper of the Silver Spring ## 第一幕:起势(约20%) The war ended in November, but I did not end with it. I came back to Massachusetts in March, when the snow was still thick on the roads and the world pretended that nothing had happened. They gave me a medal and a handshake and a pat on the shoulder that felt like an insult. Somewhere in the trenches of the Somme, three hundred thousand boys had...
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  • The Ring in the Sky
    I. Mike O'Sullivan woke up on the Moon and looked through a crack in the habitat wall and saw the Ring. It was massive—easily fifty thousand kilometers across, a ring-shaped object in lunar orbit that glowed faintly, like a piece of hot metal cooling in the dark. It was visible from Earth with the naked eye, which meant everyone back home knew it was there. Everyone back home except Mike's...
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  • Between the Wave and the Shore
    Consider two photographs of the same woman. In the first, she is standing on the platform at St. Ives station, her collar turned up against the wind, her eyes fixed on something beyond the frame. In the second, she is seated at a wooden desk in a room with high windows, a stack of case files at her elbow, her pen suspended above a page that is half-filled with the cramped handwriting of someone...
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  • The Assessed Value
    Act I: The SignatureThe office smelled like stale coffee and the particular dampness that comes from a building that was constructed in the nineteen-fifties and has been slowly losing the war against water ever since. Bill Hansen sat behind a desk that belonged to the previous tenant of this suite—a law firm that had gone out of business and left everything except the desk, which Bill kept...
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  • The Archivist's Smile
    (V-13: Fatalistic Cycle) The Island of Aethelgard did not exist in space, but in a loop. The Archivist had lived through the Great Tide one hundred and twelve times. He remembered every detail of every cycle: the way the wind smelled of ozone before the first wave hit, the exact moment the temple bells would crack, and the precise expression of terror on the faces of the villagers when the sea...
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  • Testimony of the Stone Bench
    I am granite. I was cut from a quarry in Cornwall in the year 1810, transported by barge along the coast to the mouth of the Thames, and carried by cart to the site of the new customs house. I was placed in a vault beneath the river at a depth of fourteen feet below the waterline. I weigh approximately four hundred and eighty pounds. My surface is smooth but not polished. I have no...
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  • The Golden Exchange
    The ticker tape never stopped talking. That was the first thing Vincent Moretti learned on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: the machine had opinions, and they came in the form of punched paper ribbons that fell like confetti from the ceiling of a cathedral built for a new god. He was nineteen, Irish-Italian from Hester Street, with ink on his fingers and a photographic memory that made...
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  • The Patient from Below
    ACT I: THE LISTENING The sanatorium sat on the edge of Whitechapel, where the fog never fully lifted and the gas lamps cast yellow circles on cobblestones that were perpetually damp. Julian Ashworth had been sent here by his physician after his "episode" at twenty-five—a nervous breakdown, the doctor called it, though Julian suspected the word "nervous" was a euphemism for something the doctor...
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