Strange Shorts

The characters in these ten stories protect themselves with lies, which become delusions, which take the reader into the surreal and supernatural. A karaoke singer maintains an intimate relationship with an imaginary Frank Sinatra. A guru finds a portal into an alternate reality, and a delusional heiress falls in love with the dog she adopts, never realizing that the dog is actually a teenage boy. These fabulist tales are marvels of the imagination and stand as metaphors for the excruciating failures that are commonly encountered but rarely confessed.