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 STREET COFFINS

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