Behold the ordinary world from the wrong side and nightmares and visions appear. These are strange, unquiet short fictions from the author of RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR and THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.A stripper loves a swinging lightbulb. An explorer encounters the Face of God. The accidental inventor of streaking. Children dig a hole to China. After his death a father's storytelling talent is discovered. A couple find the way to have a perfect relationship. A soldier at the front writes an absolutely perfect poem. A Sult�n who despairs of finding the woman he desires in his well-stocked harem. A woman is haunted by her own reflection. A dying man feels ever so much better when his family has gone. An explorer changes the name of a village in rural Asia - and changes history. A mountain pool that shows the Face of God. A couple who have the perfect relationship, by never divulging any personal information to each other. A government agent finds a hill on which he may face death if he crosses it. A father carries his dead child through the village to the sacred mountain.These and more strange stories come from the off-kilter imagination of James David Audlin.