Ten Stories Straight Up

Ten stories on a variety of subjects, including: E Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship approaches its destination. Is the crew ready to land on their new planet The Case of the Red Herring - Dr Watson mentioned a Holmes case about a politician, a lighthouse, and a cormorant. Now the story can be told. The House - A man brings his wife and son to see the house he grew up in. The Luck of the Irish - three convicts escaped from Port Jackson colony are apprehended by a Royal Navy frigate. The Classic - a young actress meets a young man who knows way too much about her. The Old One - the last day of the last mammoth. The Dreamer - a man drifts through a beautiful dream - but what is a dream Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man goes to a concert and sees his old college girlfriend - still twenty years old. Coyote - an Indian medicine man confronts his apprentice who has gone astray. Eight East - a young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week on a mental ward.