Pack your bags and leave boredom behind on a round trip tour of the imagination. This short story collection is an armchair adventurer's ticket to the familiar and strange, to laughter and tears, multiple surprises, and a good scare or two with a delightfully quirky cast of characters. Miss Pratt won't stay dead. Annie hates hamburgers enough to start a war but all John Henry wants is another plate of beans. Her doorknob talks to Rainy and Sandy talks to God. Danny's sorry he ever met Hurricane Charley. Ashley loses her head while Number One makes his father disappear. Ricky Lee is trouble...

Silence that cell phone, turn off the TV, and put your PC in sleep mode. Then, settle into your favorite reading corner, open this book, and let yourself fall between the lines. You'll be glad you did, for this delightfully multifaceted poetry collection -- lighthearted and lyrical, funny and poignant, witty and wise, deceptively simple, sometimes satirical -- celebrates the human experience through a poet's kaleidoscope eyes and original perspective; exploring the relationships between Man and the animal world, the creative writing process, the various passages of life, nuances of love,...