Story link: 'The Island of the Immortals' - Ursula Le Guin

The Island of the Immortals, by Ursula Le Guin

Somebody asked me if I’d heard that there were immortal people on the Yendian Plane, and somebody else told me that there were, so when I got there, I asked about them. The travel agent rather reluctantly showed me a place called the Island of the Immortals on her map. “You don’t want to go there,” she said.

Another one of the authors who makes short SFnal story-writing look effortless. I have been reading and rereading Le Guin for nearly (ulp) forty years. There is always some new glimpse.