Within the confines of these pages a variety of characters at out dramas that stretch from the reasonable and rational to the far side of the absurd. These stories illumine the shadows of life with a luminescent humour. They take the reader on a literary carousel where both the appalling and the appealing mingle and blend on the edges of society. Here the sharp wit and unusual insight of the shadows cast light on the fish bowls of normality and routine. There are twenty four slopes to slide down, with all of the glee of a child on his first toboggan run.