This collection packs eight exquisite short fiction from M. Eigh, including Bitter Tea and Braided Hair, My Mother's Shadow, Oscar's Extraordinary Life, Planned, Dear Teresa, The Manchurian Express, A Eulogy for Edwin Bogardus, Not A Bad Day and Double Saute. All of the stories have been previously published by very selective professional or semi-professional literary magazines and some of them have been re-printed since their first publication.".