“Seven-Day Terror” by R.A. Lafferty
Clarence made a dissappearer out of an old beer can, as boys do. He dissappeared the hat off the neighbor’s head, he dissappeared Mrs. Manner’s cat, and he dissappeared a hole in the dam, as boys do.
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Read a selection of R.A. Lafferty’s early short stories
“Aloys” by R.A. Lafferty
The man of the century, discoverer of the theory of everything, wears cardboard shoes and a twice handed-down coat. In one month’s time he will present his findings to his fellow scholars. That is if he can remember how to speak. It has been a long time.
Read more“The Weirdest World” by R.A. Lafferty
A disgraced spacefarer is marooned by his crew on an alien world, far from the Galactic drift.
Read more“Through Other Eyes” by R.A. Lafferty
A machine that lets you view the world through another’s eyes is set to resolve the question once and for all: Does your red look like my blue?
Read more“The Six Fingers of Time” by R.A. Lafferty
The shower head runs like molasses. The stove top sputters into flame but the pan won’t heat. Cars creep down the street so slowly they might as well be statues. And something is wrong with all the clocks.
Read more“The Wagons” by R.A. Lafferty
In Lafferty’s first published story, a boy and his father spend the summer at camp on the prairie. At night when the fire dies down, the ghosts of old wagons can be heard rolling west.
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