"It Comes and Goes"

by Robert Silverberg

Form: Short story

Year: 1992

ID: 610

Publication history:

• 1992: Playboy January 1992, Magazine
• 1993: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 6th Annual Collection, St Martins Mass market paperback
• 2000: Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6), Harper & Row Trade paperback, ISBN 0006512208, 390 pp.
• 2000: Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6), Voyager Trade paperback, ISBN 0006512208, 400 pp.

Comments:

Tom is a recovering alcoholic in a small town full of anonymous streets named after trees. On one particular block is a house that is only there sometimes. Or is this the same block? As the weeks go by, Tom sees a number of odd occurences near this house. Or is it all hallucination?

Other resources:

[None on record]