As a preacher seeking a fresh way into the text I would be using for preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world populated primarily by wee folk. I found that they - my characters as I found them developing and evolving not only in my mind but also on the page - served me well as a consideration of how I sensed things happening in the scriptural text at hand. I now want to make these stories and the world they represent newly available, and so I bring them to book form, fifty at a time. The cover drawing is done by Eve Sullivan, the author's granddaughter. The drawing is the artist's conception of the entrance to the Fringe.