These five wondrous and speculative tales feature the adventures of a time-traveling communist agent, a benevolent Joseph Stalin, steam-powered gods of Ancient Egypt, an aging actress haunted by her dead husband, and a street newspaper vendor with a very dark secret. Plunge into the wild imagination of Edward Dutton.

Praise for the author’s prior work:

"[A] pitch-black collection of fables... I hope and pray, in future work, Mr. Dutton's considerable talent will be channeled toward the Light." - Queer Town Abbey

"Edward Dutton is first and foremost an intellectual. It's important to remember that fact because that simple state of consciousness is what informs every nuance of this very complicated, tantalizing and thought-provoking collection of short stories bordering on memoir... This is a worthy addition to your library if you are a serious student of gay lit..." - GGR Review

"What this book has that so much other erotic writing doesn't is gorgeous language [and] well developed themes... There is a lot of talent here and a very good thinker and writer..." - Amos Lassen

"This gay male author creates beauty, heat, magic, tears, and a form of sensate presence to life that is astounding. I am completely emotionally and intellectually stimulated by this author's poetic prose. His topics vary from moonlit garden trysts, submissive abject eroticism, to scary nighttime death. Each is treated with equal artistry and mastery of the language." - Jacob Campbell, author of Amen's Boy and French Quarter Knights

"This collection transcends the queer erotica genre in a sublime, coming-of-age journey exploring the aggressive, male psyche gone awry." - Boston Haunts