Toccatas & Fugues

Toccatas & Fugues: Stories So Far is a collection of ten Speculative Fiction short stories. From ghosts to robots and many things in-between, this collection includes horror, science fiction, fantasy, ghosts, steampunk, and apocalyptic fiction. -A woman recently widowed receives an unexpected message while doing her "Sunday Puzzles." -Mark Twain was invited to have "A Lay-by at Cottonwood" in 1831. He shouldn't have accepted. -"Lazenby's Aethereolabe" is a bold experiment, but will it carry our hero to an unfortunate doom? -"White Out" recounts the bitter story of a greedy man who meets something greedier than himself. -A "Bright Star" shines in the night, before falling. -A team of scientists attempt to awaken a sentient robot in "An Experiment with Sublimity." -What do you do when you're required to live in a super-highrise of the future, and you happen to be afraid of clouds? Ask "Jo Nepho." -Perhaps they stayed too long. Long enough, at least, to be trapped in a "Fear Cage." -"Miss Fitzhue" is trapped inside a robot, and the robot consciousness coexisting with her is confused. -A "Locust" plague is not as dangerous as a mother's wrath.