Punters, salutations! Please start here if you like, or possibly sample a tale or two. You’ll be perfectly safe. Presenting sixty years’ worth of my published shorts, a personal selection, was Pete’s suggestion—Pete Crowther, I mean, the man behind PS.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Part Secundus; Meeting the Author; The Alternative; A Street was Chosen;  The Same in Any Language;  Where They Lived; The Word; The Dead Must Die;  Going Under; Never to be Heard; The Entertainment; No Strings; No Story in it; The Retrospective;  Feeling Remains; The Place of Revelation; The Decorations; Just Behind You; Skeleton Woods; Digging Deep;  Respects;  Passing Through Peacehaven; The Long Way;    The Moons;  The Room Beyond; The Rounds;  With the Angels;  Holding the Light; Getting it Wrong; At Lorn Hall;  The Callers;  Reading the Signs;   The Wrong Game