Short Stories

Cliffs That Laughed
—R. A. Lafferty


  •   · Excerpt    
      "“Imagine about flute notes ascending,” said Galli. “I haven't my flute with me, but a story should begin so to set the mood. Imagine about ships coming out of the Arabian Ocean, and finally to Jilolo Island, and still more finally to the very island on which we now stand. Imagine about waves and trees that were the great-great-grandfathers of the waves and trees we now have.” It was about the year 1620, Galli is telling it, in the late afternoon of the high piracy. These Moluccas had already been the rich Spice Islands for three hundred years."  —R. A. Lafferty
         · 1994 Locus 22nd, Best Short Story



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