Marian Allen

What do you do with a natural-born fool like Lonnie? If you're the fool's best friend, you spend way too much time up to your armpits in nonsense.

There is magic in these nine stories, two poems, and single work of creative nonfiction. Among its wild array of visions are a band of ruffians waylaying "Living Books" on a strangely Earth-like planet; a cat-like alien astronaut whose ship lands at the bottom of an English garden; a hilarious case of "cat-o-strophic spelling" in New York City and some more cosmically fortunate magic at a school for young wizards; a Native American "ghost walker" fighting evil "spiderlings" on a distant asteroid; and a comedy - set in more familiar Hoosier territory - of middle-aged lovers in crisis, a rebellious teenager, and a biker gang leader named Mongo.

Whether you've read Marian Allen's SAGE trilogy (The Fall of Onagros, Bargain With Fate, Silver and Iron) or not, you can dive right into these stories set in the same world. Some feature settings and characters from the trilogy, some explore lands and people only hinted at in the novels, but all are filled with strong characters and fantasy.Per Bastet Publications invites you to savor this baker's dozen of stories from the world of SAGE.