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 BurgessGARBAGE DAY AT EWERTONTHE GERMAN LADYHUNGERDUET ON THIN ICE"...AND THE HORSES HISS AT MIDNIGHT"THE UPPYROAKE KAMIKAZE AND THE VIRGIN SHREDDERTHE HEMINGWAY KITTENSTHE CAT-TRACKER LADY OF ASAD ALLEYNO HEAVEN WILL NOT EVER HEAVEN BE...vIN THE GREAT MILK-WHITE EYE OF GODABOVE THE CAPITANS, SOUTH OF CORONA, NEAR ARROYO DEL MACHOTHE SECOND MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLDvDORA'S TRUNKTHE TIME OF THE BLEEDING PUMPKINSAT FUNLAND BY THE SWINGS, WITH BIG CHUCKDECORATING DEAD...