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The stories found in this collection will pierce the reader's mind like a giant double-pronged fondue fork and lovingly dip it into a bubbly, literary pot that is an amalgam of the quixotic and the sanguine, of the bona fide and the bizarre, of the apprehensive and the humanistic. There are no signposts to prepare the journeyer, nor to guide them across the pages as they trek into multifarious and genre-bending landscapes that oscillate from reverie to nightmare and reverberate with quirks and idiosyncrasies of language so unique to this author's own distinctive style. Lurking inside these pages, poised at the precipice of an acute awareness is an invisible hand waiting to press-gang the reader into service of the fantastic and the unsettling. This collection is a must for the bibliomaniac who thought they'd already seen and read everything. By Bruce Machado