By way of explanation
a whatnot and wherewithal―clearing up how Willipaq² came to be. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known...

A Pass on the Tabouli
Errol Flynn, aged 120, has been kept alive with hormones and organ transplants until 2025 for the last, final, remake of Kipling's Kim. It will be a musical.

Boys' Night Out
Jim bit the dog's ear off. He spat―dog blood was different, somehow forbidden.

I Want to Share Your Wheat
wherein Prosper Epilegomenes, a mouse demon in service to Sminthian Apollo, patron of direct mail advertising, blows up a car dealership and kills a troublesome neighbor.

The Perfect Homburg
duckpin bowling in Taunton, Massachusetts. A duel over a magic hat sacred to Artemis, sister of Apollo.

An Unwarmed Fish
another Thursday, but a different barmaid. "Hi, I'm Bambi. The Divine Artemis couldn't make it. The demiurges are chucking quoits today."

Klein, the Clone
wherein twins play which kid's got the papers. Originally published as The Flags of All Nations Hors D'eouvre Toothpick Caper.

The Ninepatch Variation
wherein Libby Pease remembers her girlhood as a litany of lost callers. First the iceman stops his deliveries, then the coal truck stops coming to the Pease house. Now a visitor: William Powell has misplaced Myrna Loy.

A Special Providence
A woman sat in the booth at Customs Canada. "Hiya Gerry." She eyed her computer monitor from habit, but no car, no plate for the scanner. Gerry was a pedestrian. "No potatoes, drugs, explosives?"
"Nope."
"Thought so. Any citrus?"
"Nope."

Facelift
Eventually, Gearbox stops coming to school. And, after some frantic calls around the neighborhood, her parents seem to adjust. She will only have to keep one step ahead of the Alymeadean battle lords.

Endpapers
wherein the author expounds and digresses

Acknowledgements
wherein the blame is parceled out―brickbats, accolades, etc.

About this Book
about Willipaq and its denizens

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