From his sing-song waywardness that reads more like a oral retelling to his meticulousness attention to the placement of every phrase, adjective, and ellipses to his tongue-in-cheek self-awareness, Salman Rushdie is undeniably a literary genius. “That’s how it was; there can be no retreat...
One example of this can be found in the history 'Coyote Snares the Wind'. In the story, the wind blows all the time, greatly disturbing the inhabitants of the world by blowing their houses away (Coyote...
staring at the wayward airliner parked with its aft ventral stairway extended. FBI agents went to work, dusting for fingerprints and searching for other forensic evidence. Without DNA testing (not yet invented), an ashtray full of cigarette butts was lost. (DNA tests were later conducted on a...