Shooting Genji is a noir riff on the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji, set in the U.S. during Prohibition and the Great Crash. The story's narrator, Jean-Yves LeFouet, is a book-lover who is almost blinded at age 16, when he falls from a ladder dusting books. He is changed and his eyes never recover. With daylight too bright and nighttime never too dark, he becomes perfectly suited for a multitude of shady careers. No one sees back roads at midnight as well, and a few years later he takes up driving at night for whiskey smugglers. The leader of the gang, Big Department, is reputed to be a...

A Little Too Rambunctious is a 10-year-old's take on The Secret Life of Kids. Parents are cranky, brothers sadistic, and the Fifth Grade teacher, Miss Salappa, is angry and mad-with a red ballpoint pen to prove it. At least his best friend Mr. Cool has her. Peanut Butter Man and Mr. Cool will get through it somehow-with recess and Skeeball and the school Carnival and Space Food Sticks and snow that sticks and the girl with the pretty nice arm. Who'd have thought there were so many three-letter words to describe 1968? Nam. Wax. Fuc. Mad.