Ranging from bittersweet memories to fantasized futures, from short experimental takes to fully realized satirical concepts, and from social ironies to academic comedies, these stories illustrate the work of a writer one critic has called "prolific and Protean." The first and the last were prize-winners, while more than half the others have been published previously, (four already reprinted). They tell tales of love and longing, of sports and spite, of strange ways and stranger happenings.