When floods destroy Kenji's family's crop, the family plans to sell their most prized possession--a picture of five flying geese--but not until young Kenji lets one of the painted geese take flight with real ones....
With the publication of this collection, the remarkable literary career of Ryerson Johnson enters its sixty-fifth year. Whether historically based, geographically realistic, or adult fairy stories, these eleven tales are escapist fiction at its best....
• First Digital Edition• Classic Pulp Hardboiled FictionHer name was Tessie Cullen and she was beautiful… and she shook the dice in a joint in Coalfield--the most sinful city south of Chicago. The hoods owned Coalfield, owned its corrupt, neon ...
A lion, a bird, a crocodile, a giraffe, a snake and an elephant come together in a dark cave. They seek safety from the wild, wild wind. They do not like each other because they all look so different. As long as the wild, wild wind is blowing, they h...