These utterly fanciful stories make us smile. In so doing, they affirm the resilient magic of the human condition. This new edition of Jim Gold s shorter work includes rare tales of magic and daring-do chronicles of a clever entrepreneur launching a Holy Land tour business during the Crusades, stories of talking vegetables and stories of half-mad dreamers, stories of love and of devotion in a world where Up is often Sideways. If you like reading P.G. Wodehouse and S.J. Perelman, you ll love this book. A tonic for the flagging spirit and a reminder of the joy of living, it will make you an appreciator of wild imagination and leave you feeling younger than it found you.