The Brighton Tarot Card Mystery

The main story is a novelette, The Brighton Tarot Card Mystery. This story is a delightful little romp through the streets of Brighton, England with a self styled detective chasing the young thief who stole a mysterious deck of Tarot Cards that is gaining a reputation for for accurately predicting the future. There are a dozen additional short stories that offer a range of topics, some taken from life and others that are purely fictional. A Million, Million, Stars is a true story of a child living in a lumber camp that includes about being chased by a fictional bear, and a fictional story that includes an encounter with a bear and ends with an encounter with aliens called Camping Can Be Fun. There is a Halloween story about a magician that should be more careful what you wish for. Other stories are about an encounter with an alien who gets her revenge and there is a western, Angelic Stranger, about a gunslinger who causes chaos by minding his own business. Then there is a story Brighton Beach, about a boy who drowns, by metaphorically playing with fire and gets burned by an ocean storm. Next is The Trial that take place in another dimension when a soul requests the court of Universal Justice to cancel his birthing plans. Next is the story of, The Scrubbing Woman; and the resulting effects of an accidental pregnancy. Another story is a fictional beginning of the new ice age called Snow Day. In Bluebonnets Grow Wild, it's OK to fix a horse race once, but fixing it twice is a no-no. In The Alien don't mess with the alien from the Mother ship or she will get her revenge.