Shadow Ticket
Appearance
- 48. We want to believe that objects are pure, innocent, when the truth is that they lie open to every vibration that comes their way, law-abiding, criminal, everything in between.
- 94. Does cheese, as a living entity, also possess consciousness?
- 159. How's the amnesia, forgotten anything interesting lately?
- 167. ...not only are there more passengers aboard the Stupendica than at first appeared, but their numbers also have been strangely increasing day by day, despite no ports of call so far having been stopped at...
- 188. Won't matter, every round will just asport away to someplace harmless.
- 189. ...a lamp so stupefyingly tasteless it makes nonsense of the tasteless lamp category itself. Too horribly tasteless ever to have been photographed.
- 190. Turns out that in response to the local ass/app situation, a trade has sprung up in counterfeit apports, passing for merchandise just in from the other side of whatever this is that's going on. Returns. Fake returns.
- 191. ...lampadophiles, or persons sexually attracted to lamps.
- 195. ...the abrupt changes of temperature which accompany any apport event.
- 253. Bigger Than Yer Stummick (1931)... Did seem to go on a little too long. ...Well... not long enough, actually.
- 262. BAGEL, the Bureau Administering Golems Employed Locally.
- 284. HIJAC, Homeland Integrity through Jewish Asset Conversion
- 294 UTOPIAN caveat...Unless the Opportunity Presents Itself, Attack Nobody.
- 309. Stay, or go. Two fates beginning to diverge - back to the U.S., marry, raise a family, assemble a life you can persuade yourself is free from fear, as meanwhile, over here, the other outcome continues to unfold, to roll in dark as the end of time. Those you could have saved, could've shifted at least somehow onto a safer stretch of track, are one by one robbed, beaten, killed, seized and taken away into the nameless, the unrecoverable.
- Until one night, too late, you wake into a understanding of what you should have been doing with your life all along.
- Something like that. If anybody was still there to hear it. Which there isn't.
- 323. ...still there will come over him an urge more ancient than anything he knows of to go deeper, to descend, rivets creaking, into depths legendary as those of the Valdivia Expedition of 1898-99, which brought up into the daylight a pitch-black critter known as the Vampire Squid, by whose name, these days, the U-13 has since come to be known.