ISBN-13: 9781460946992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str.
Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, including The Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lot of time provide an overview of a life Colby - An explorer pushes the limits of what can be learned of life and death - and the space between The Visitor - A look at travel in the coming age of energy shortages A Connecticut Yankee in King Neptune's Court - How did a Union dog tag come to be found in a Confederate submarine? Sibyl - What of us will survive after we are gone? Only our houses - and their thoughts? The McKinley Cut - What might have happened when President McKinley came to Marin County to ride the Crookedest Railroad in the World. An Occurrence in the Indian Ocean - Some old seamen never die - but they should have. Tango Uniform - Life and death in a WWII destroyer The Siren of the South - The little-known story of the female Confederate blockade runner