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Murray Pomerance

Fiction

Autumn 1988

Sicilian Vespers

By Murray Pomerance

The thirteenth of July, 1789, twilight. Weary of the way people breeze past him in the streets without tipping their hats respectfully, Corviello the mushroom-king decides it’s time to call […]

Fiction

Autumn 1988

Belles Excentriques

By Murray Pomerance

Planted in Paris when but an impressionable nineteen, Maestro Mezzetinto has become quite gorged with the most romantic of phantasmagoria involving every sleazy byway in every pulsating arrondissement and all […]

Fiction

Spring 1987

Magia D’Amore

By Murray Pomerance

❦ Professeur Pantalon is beside himself with grief, a fat bird he has brought home for dinner, and for which he has handed over twenty pieces of silver, turning out […]