Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told — by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise — life itself.

Contents:

• Klokwerk's Heart
• The Eel
• The Curse of Hyperica
• Temptation of the Seven Scientists
• The Afterlife at Seahorse Drive
• The It and the Ecstacy
• Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cevennes
• The Chosen
• Syargazing
• Kidnapped!
• The Helford Deal
• Me-too
• Crumpled Sheets and Death-fluffies
• Sweat, Joy and Thunderation
• Valley of the Sugars of Salt
• Catechismic Chaos
• Dr. Babiram's Potentials
• Exhibition
• The Refloat of D'Urbe Isle
• The Apple
• The Rest Cure
• The Magic Lino
• Call Me Omniscient
• Bluebird Pie
• Picking Blueberries
• The Wages of Food-Play
• OM
• The Ocean in Kansas
• Monterra's Deliciosa
• Literary Titan, Asher E. (huh?) Treat
• Pearls