Publisher's Synopsis
ABRUPTLY, is a collection of 14 short stories written over almost as many years. It is call ABRUPTLY, because that is how most of these stories were written. It is also called ABRUPTLY, because that is how most of these stories end. The collection is divided into four sets or chapters.
ONE SEEN -- The first four stories is about one seeing another, or not seeing another.
- Night Thesis - Are ghosts watching us while we are looking out for them?
- Way Up Here - Do you go to a stadium to watch the event, or the spectators?
- Trudgen Hollow - If you communicate with spirits, would you know more than you should?
- The Paradeda Library - If you have only yourself to watch out for, how do you keep watching out?
TWO WEIRD - The second two stories are weird, even by my standards.
- Tearing Up Chocolate - How to beat a giant with confectionary and titivation.
- Strawberry Bites - Vampires and faires and gnomes and frogs and one sentient dinosaur.
THREE FUTURE - Three kind of science-fiction stories looking to possible futures make up the third set.
- The Priest, the Astronaut and the Caveman - Long term roleplay as exhibits in an alien cultural museum. How do you occupy your mind?
- The Bigger Tipper - When government starts controlling everyhting, even tipping waiters.
- Clywick's Remembering - When genetic engineering can do almost anything, and you can play the Lotto to win an upgrade.
FOUR DEAD - The fourth set conclude with four stories exploring untimely deaths.
- Grizzle & Bone - An accident in the kitchen.
- Stupid Fishes - A mishap in the aquarium.
- Pressing Silence - A transgression in the library.
- Watching Angels - And a delinquent youth roaming the halls of a girl's school.
