An amateur cryptozoologist tracks a two-tailed flying squirrel through the Pacific Northwest. An alienated hacker returns home to Birmingham to visit his dying mother. A failed science fiction writer moves to a new medium in an attempt to create a lasting work of art. In these and other stories, John Shutt explores the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic travails of people on the edges of society and sanity.
This short story collection includes A Note from a Man in a Tree, A Small and Perfect Work of Art, Zay Shun, Goodbye Zyxxnra, What Price Bananas?, The Contents of Harold Fredrickson's Pockets on the Day He Died, The Zen Master, A Brief Eulogy for Sammy Banyan, and Knuckle.
An amateur cryptozoologist tracks a two-tailed flying squirrel through the Pacific Northwest. An alienated hacker returns home to Birmingham to visit his dying mother. A failed science fiction writer moves to a new medium in an attempt to create a lasting work of art. In these and other stories, John Shutt explores the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic travails of people on the edges of society and sanity.
This short story collection includes A Note from a Man in a Tree, A Small and Perfect Work of Art, Zay Shun, Goodbye Zyxxnra, What Price Bananas?, The Contents of Harold Fredrickson's Pockets on the Day He Died, The Zen Master, A Brief Eulogy for Sammy Banyan, and Knuckle.