I love indexes; I've always thought books should have more than one.
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These one-liners are meant to help people who've read a story once find it again, but if they lead you to something new, great -- I've tried not to give the endings away, for those stories that have something like a plot.
Eliot joins a team of diggers
European soap-opera madrigal
Frank Lloyd Wright
Hammy and Barnard lose their radio show
Her Majesty is missing
Monster Larry falls for it
Percy's Motor Inn
Pierrot Ain in the haunted house
Secret Brain Agent on the case
Thad wakes up as a bug (though not for long)
Tiganissi.
afterlife dancing
architect ascending
baby's first apparatus
bad behavior in Paris
breakup vacation bookstore
breakup, whirligigs, errands
bunnies and bears
but only God can make a tree; triumphant return of the backgammon theme
camped out at co-op after the riot
catching up with the old crowd
checking out sushi restaurants
checking up on Mom's boyfriend
chicken costume
commune footnotes
contortionist and sideshow freak on the run
creepy mansion tour
cruising with mayonnaise and discomfort
deposed earl works nights at a warehouse
early morning at the Casa De Biftec with a customer who won't leave
enormous insects drive the Romans out of France
ex-neighbors
face down in my pool
former World's Fairgrounds draw a skilled crowd
ghost story with Agent 7
halloween, another intractable patron
hey, a shark
high school after the fall
hole in Bauer's apartment; everything rattles
home gets farther away
hopeless cab ride
hotel bar, journalists, unsolved crime, dictionary, wiretaps, hotel bar
how could a headless man drink two bottles of sherry?
how to go somewhere unfamiliar in Africa
in the doghouse and working at the mall
inventor Fernley and sidekick Legs
kids love Motorcycle Shakespeare
kitten meets snake
late-night mega-mart goofies
letters vanish from a woman's mouth
loaves of bread
mediocrity in the afterlife afflicts two men in a diner
melty buildings
models fighting and pontificating
molasses flood traps two on roof
moving day elegy
my mother has been augmenting herself on the sly
nightmare moppet obsession; don't watch TV
note from a thieving game show contestant
noticed while travelling
o, it is hard to be a Sasquatch
orphans plan for a wedding amid dental trouble
our post-precision future; Seguro receives a gift
perfect, unchanging x-rays
pet store and severe depression
pretending to be Australian
reluctant cult scion
return to Roanoke
romance among the chicken-cataloguers
selling all the dust
seriously, don't read this one
several lies about a man in a hat; Kate paints faces
shooting the breeze at a hot spring
small-town girl in a cave
soap opera with backgammon
soccer dogs! (my first pre-teen clients)
space art; fear of boredom
specification
superstitions and a blackout
ten year old's plans gang agley
the Cardinal's parcels
the devil buys a soul the long way
the historian at your elbow
the ignored visitor
the one that goes "click"
thinking about Matt Damon
third (and last) Inspector story
three Inspectors again
to implore the sun for favors...
two immortals
underwater experiences
unorthodox love letters
visitation by an angel and its aftermath
well-bred evil twin on a speedboat
what New York is really like
white paper on hair color in Nebraska
why did she lock him in the basement?
windy desert paint hunt
worksheet for couples counselors
yet more sad animals (in this case, isolated mice)
you will you will you will
zookeepers have it all under control
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