I get inspirations for my stories in some odd places and at some strange times. I wrote one of these stories after a shower one morning as I was putting on my clothes and drying my hair. Some of the stories are rewrites of old ones, but most of them are new. In this collection I have tried to avoid cute or self-promoting stories, some of which polluted my earlier efforts. There's nothing heroic, nothing cute here. At least that was my goal.