More off-beat animal stories from the author of LONNIE, ME AND THE HOUND OF HELL.The dog Joseph's stepmother gave him leads him away from his intended route. Disobedience puts a young mermaid's life into the relentless claws of a crab. A penguin thinks his fortune is made when he discovers a cache of Scotch.Twelve short pieces from flash to full, from romance to bizarre. Marian Allen writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, horror, mainstream, and anything else she can wrestle into fixed form.Allen has had stories in anthologies, on-line and print publications, including several volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's SWORD & SORCERESS, on coffee cans and the wall of an Indian restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. She posts on her own eclectic blog, https://MarianAllen.com.
