The Impossibly

When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin. This story of a man lost out of his mind in a complex and faulty memory-driven world has the dark absurdity of a Kafka.

Author Biography: Laird Hunt is an editor for the Department of Public Information at the United Nations. He has lived in Singapore, London, Paris, the Hague, Tokyo, Bloomington Indiana, Greenwich Connecticut, and Boulder, Colorado. Hunt has work forthcoming in the Knopf anthology Lost Classics, edited by Michael Ondaatje.