Bitten by the Golden Bant

Love in discovered in Yalta
IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady
with a little dog. Andy Gurov, who had by then been a
fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to
take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney’s pavilion, he
saw, walking on the sea-front, [...]

Momma

Momma.
She gave God permission to

create the universe, then she ruled it
from her living room throne. From

there, she barked her orders with a
voice that was known to make bats fall

from the sky, and her son scurried to
obey, lest the wrath of Momma fall upon

him.

He played in quiet. He didn’t
want Momma to hear him and

decide he
was having [...]