Pretty Little Dead Things & Other Stories

A relic of the House of Plantagenet, lying forgotten in a garage in Iowa, stirs up outside interest of a questionable nature in "Old Jawbone" and "Colfox Murdered Gloucester in Calais (Remember Radcot Bridge)."

In the aftermath of an inimical relationship, a young mental health patient discovers auspicious new functionality in the latest software upgrade of a therapeutic device in "Feedback."

An aging author, her too long-familiar husband and yokemate, and a perky young pre-med confront the converging tides of yesterday and tomorrow in "The Pool."

In "The Detention Cell" the bugs are triumphant. . .

A severed finger discovered on a stretch of Tennessee highway briefly unites a state trooper with an unusual hobbyist up north on a collecting trip in "Pretty Little Dead Things."

In these and six more stories that playfully embrace myths, legends and archetypes, ranging from mainstream to horror to science fiction and back again, the lingering effects of past choices and chances continue to break through and affect lives in the present. "Never suspecting the whirlpools fanning out through possible futures. Throw a pebble in the lily pond. Ripples disperse, like that."