Halfway down the stairs
By: by Gary A. Braunbeck
Publisher: JournalStone
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9781942712596
Description: "The stories span Braunbeck's thirty-year career from some of the very first tales of Cedar Hill to all-new stories, including the never-before-published author's preferred version of the controversial, "The Sisterhood of Plain-Faced Women." "--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Throw it at the Wall and see what sticks --; title: Crybaby bridge #25 --; title: ...He didn't even leave a note... --; title: Attack of the giant deformed mutant cannibalistic gnashing sloggerers from Planet Cygnus X-2.73: a love story --; title: Househunting --; title: All the unlived moments --; title: At the "pay here, please" table --; title: Consolation --; title: Bargain --; title: Shikata ga nai: a bag lady's tale --; title: Patience --; title: Always something there to remind me --; title: Return to Mariabronn --; title: Cyrano -- Pt. 2. ; title: With a little help from my friends --; title: Great pity --; title: In hollow houses --; title: Afterward, there will be a hallway --; title: For want of a better smile --; title: Curtain call --; title: Ungrateful places --; title: Little off the top --; title: Tales the ashes tell --; title: Just out of reach --; title: El poso de mundo --; title: Don't sit under the apple tree --; title: Redaction --; title: Chow hound --; title: John Wayne's dream --; title: Ballad of the side-street wizard --; title: We now pause for station identification -- Pt. 3.Sometime then ; title: Rami temporales --; title: Sisterhood of plain-faced women --; title: Union dues --; title: All but the ties eternal --; title: After the elephant ballet --; title: Cocteau prayers --; title: Dinosaur day --; title: In the house of the hangman one does not talk of rope --; title: Iphigenia --; title: Duty --; title: All over, all gone, bye-bye.