A.R. Morlan's work is quirky, often hard to categorize, and non-stop inventive and imaginative. She has gathered a cult following for her science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense, and erotic fiction of the last four decades. (And sometimes she writes in all those genres at once...) This volume, a "best of" selected from her short fiction by Mary Wickizer Burgess, presents 22 mind-bending tales of the fantastic. Included are:
INTRODUCTION, by Mary Wickizer Burgess
GARBAGE DAY AT EWERTON
THE GERMAN LADY
HUNGER
DUET ON THIN ICE
"...AND THE HORSES HISS AT MIDNIGHT"
THE UPPYROAKE KAMIKAZE AND THE VIRGIN SHREDDER
THE HEMINGWAY KITTENS
THE CAT-TRACKER LADY OF ASAD ALLEY
NO HEAVEN WILL NOT EVER HEAVEN BE...
IN THE GREAT MILK-WHITE EYE OF GOD
ABOVE THE CAPITANS, SOUTH OF CORONA, NEAR ARROYO DEL MACHO
THE SECOND MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD
DORA'S TRUNK
THE TIME OF THE BLEEDING PUMPKINS
AT FUNLAND BY THE SWINGS, WITH BIG CHUCK
DECORATING DEAD PEOPLE, UNDER THE LAWNS
BETWEEN LONG. 150 W. AND 90 W., ONE DEGREE ABOVE HELL
THE CUTTLEFISH
"'RILLAS"
"CONTINGENCIES AND PENTI-LOPE-LOPE"
THE FOLD-O-RAMA WARS AT THE BLUE MOON ROACH HOTEL
SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE UNNATURAL-BORN CHIMERA AND THE SHADOWFOX GRIEFER
