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SIX SHORT STORIES by the author of Risen and The Summer We Lost Alice, served up with a twist.From "The Best Fishing Ever"-a fish story with no fish, a horror story with no horror-to the title story, "The Murmuring Field"-a tale about love, loss, passion and alien visitors-here are six journeys into the strange, the wonderful and the bizarre."Hafford House" is a haunted house tale where justice is served up hot, where the barrier between this world and the next is as insubstantial as a wisp of smoke.At thirteen, "Cassie" knows her future, and that is why she screams.A symphony conductor runs afoul of a local witch with the insidious ability to implant ear worms. Could "Polly Wolly Doodle" literally drive a man insane?Mankind has twelve minutes to exist before annihilation by a rogue asteroid. The public has no clue, but in the offices of a computer street-mapping company, a video technician discovers an oddly-garbed man standing in six places at once, staring at the sky, "Photobombing the Apocalypse.""This collection is a real find. Jan Strnad gives us quirky characters, sly humor, and devious plot twists. His wry endings always manage to surprise us in a satisfying way. Well done!"-Harry Shannon, author of The Pressure of Darkness and the Mick Callahan novels* * *All stories contain some supernatural or science fiction element. Little profanity, no explicit sex, occasional violence.