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...v

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 WORLDv

DORA'S TRUNK

THE TIME OF THE BLEEDING PUMPKINS

AT FUNLAND BY THE SWINGS, WITH BIG CHUCK

DECORATING DEAD...