The Grinding House is the CSFG's sole single-author collection to date, presenting twenty stories by Kaaron Warren. The original book was edited by CSFG member Donna Maree Hanson, with a cover by Robyn Evans."Kaaron Warren's voice is clear, original and sharp as a surgeon's scalpel. Her characters, no matter how bizarre their evolution or environment, reach out to us as people, their struggles becoming our own, and her stories, although often unrelenting, are shot through with an optimism and affection for our frail, striving species. Kaaron Warren's stories, filled with narrative energy, hum like power lines, and don't let you go until you've read the last word in the last sentence. Best of all, and so rare in the field, she writes science fiction for grown-ups." –Simon Brown, author of The Chronicles of KydanStories"Fresh Young Widow""The Glass Woman""The Blue Stream""The Hanging People""Smoko""A Positive""The Missing Children""In the Drawback""Al's Iso Bar""The Left Behind""Tiger Kill""The Wrong Seat""Skin Holes""The Sameness of Birthdays""The Speaker of Heaven""The Smell of Mice""The Grinding House""Survival of the Last""Salamander""Working for the God of the Love of Money"Of these twenty stories, three were original to the collection: "Fresh Young Widow", "The Smell of Mice" and "The Grinding House". All of the others had previously appeared elsewhere.