The evening of April 9, 1891, the Citrus County Commission chambers in Mannfield, Florida were taken over by a partisan group from the nearby town of Inverness, declaring Inverness to be the new county seat. "Stolen" is what irate folks from Mannfield said. In fact, the County Clerk, still in his chair at his desk, writing, had been loaded into a mule-drawn wagon and hauled off, along with county furniture and records. By 1917, Mannfield was no longer on maps - it was a "ghost town" with naught but longleaf pine and turkey oak-covered woods. Nothing remained, not even foundations, just a...

"You Can't Pick Up Raindrops" is a collection of unforgettable short stories including a lot of humor, a tear jerker, science fiction, a bit of romance, alternate universes, the truly strange and weird, as well as stories that will leave you with the question: "Did that really happen?"