A collection of short stories to read in a hurry. Some of these stories have been published before in various anthologies, but I wanted to produce as John Lennon once put it, this slim volume. I've included one introductory memoir, 2 trilogies, one about love and one about death, two longer stories which are pure speculation about the possible lives of two people with whom I went to primary school in the early 1960s and haven't seen since and three microstories - because i love the genre.