Short and Surreal

Sometimes, dreams can come true... whether you like it or not.

Here, at last... Eleven of Tall Pike's previously unpublished, unexpected-yet long overdue-works of offbeat fiction have been bundled together in this collection. Often speculative, surreal, and philosophically oriented, this eclectic mix of stories could be said to resonate shades of fantasy, science fiction, and horror... Maybe.

"The Promotion" presents the near future of an alternate reality in which an already depressed company employee's inexplicably strange day makes him question things: His advancement in a career he hates, his faltering perception, his health, and, eventually, why he bothered to get out of bed that morning.

"Things Could Always Be Worse" begins with a typical day in the life of a bohemian urban princess, whose narrow world is about to collapse into a state that anyone would find disconcerting.

"Peregrine" concerns a wanderer, who travels to escape a curse that inevitably draws hostility towards him from every surrounding community he visits. Through unfortunate happenstance, he is eventually forced to journey to a foreboding place, lest he endure yet another possible curse.

Of course, there's more...