The vignette is one of the most challenging forms of fiction. How much story can you tell in how few words? Here are fourteen strange little tales, none of them longer than 2000 words,ranging from hard science to bizarre fantasy, plus a bonus story, Pickled Mongoose!
David Gerrold is the Hugo and Nebula award winning author of The Martian Child, The Man Who Folded Himself, The Voyage Of The Star Wolf, and fifty other books. He created the tribbles for Star Trek and the Sleestaks for Land Of The Lost. This collection showcases the shortest stories he's ever written.