The seventeen stories in this collection take will you from a grunge bar in the 90s to a land of magical trees to the middle of the night ocean. Come along for a ride that is one part postmodern, one part magical, and several parts heart. With a bevy of protagonists spanning from a Bulgarian orchard worker to a jaded-yet-still-earnest skateboarder to an octogenarian about to get conned, the stories in this collection represent a wide rangeof the bestof today s fiction. Tayen Lane Publishing is proud to present this multifaceted collection that includes emerging, established, and first-time authors. Inside these pages you ll find humor, depth, lyricism, flash, formal invention, tales of the internet, and historical fiction. The common thread: These are all stories that are a pleasure to read.