Ten story beginnings are set in a variety of times and places from historical to futuristic. Four other authors continue each, creating a diversity of themes in forty tales. Their imagination births a variety of genres, including mystery, horror, romance, speculative, magical realism, and realistic literature, rejuvenating the short story concept.

This is a colourful metamorphosis of the traditional approach to story telling. Never boring, never predictable and never conventional.

Why does the naked corpse have painted red genitals?
Who are those strange creatures that only Thistle can see through the hag stone?
What happens when a Victorian gentleman meets a “master of acquisitions” in The Whistle Pub?
Find out the answers to these and another seven story starts in this collection.