Title: Scar Vegas : and other stories /
Authors: Paine, Tom.
Publisher: Harcourt,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Short stories, American.
Abstract: An anthology of stories dealing with moral choices. In Ceausescu's Cat, two brothers in Romania, one a thief, the other a poet, strike a blow for freedom in different ways, General Markman's Last Stand, is on a cross-dressing general, while in A Predictable Nightmare on the Eve of the Stock Market Breaking 6,000, a cocky financier is cut down to size.
Contents: Will you say something, Monsieur Eliot? -- General Markman's last stand -- Scar Vegas -- Unapproved minutes of the Carthage, Vermont Zoning Board of Adjustment -- The spoon children -- The hotel on Monkey Forest Road -- Ceauşescu's cat -- The mayor of St. John -- A predictable nightmare on the eve of the stock market breaking 6,000 -- The battle of Khafji.