A Night Garden and Other Stories

Literary fiction of humor and horror poetry and mystery science fiction and myth exploring the limits and inner and outer space. Short-short fictions of only a few lines hint at terrible depths. The long story The Perquisites of His Position tells a tale of ghostly revenge. The novella The Darkness of the Heart relates a story of the day slavery was abolished in Haiti. The satirical Pangloss Triumphant tells of a happy hermaphrodite. From the revelations of the aged Don Juan to the musings of B-movie actors trapped in deteriorating celluloid from the voice of the ancient Sphinx to the senility of a quantum particle at the very end of the physical universe the thirty-three artfully crafted stories presented here are full of deftly drawn characters amazing plots psychological insights and universal truths.