Seventeen short stories of the twentieth-century set in India, Spain, Ireland, Wales, New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, and California ranging from hilarious comedy to insightful character studies and forays into fascinating situations and cultures. Two of the stories center around the New York World's Fair of 1939, emblematic of a turning point for the author when the world that went before zapped into the World of Tomorrow that few expected was coming. Many of these stories have been published in literary magazines and read by the author to delighted audiences from London to California and even on ships at sea.