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.