Sublime

“A male,” I murmured as I read its massive barcode, about the size of a bath mat, “one hundred and twenty-one years old and, since there’s no sign of combat, probably died of old age.”

The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific). With Jordan Belsen, the filmmaker, he

the Berry Man can scatter himself into a hundred disparate parts and a prying eye would see nothing but the same leaves and twigs as lie on any woodland floor. But once the prying eye has passed on the Berry Man draws himself back in. The scraps of bark slowly shift along the ground and are reintroduced to each other; the chill wind shuffles him