Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales
Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told – by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise – life itself.
Contents:
- Klokwerk's Heart
- The Eel
- The Curse of Hyperica
- Temptation of the Seven Scientists
- The Afterlife at Seahorse Drive
- The It and the Ecstacy
- Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cevennes
- The Chosen
- Syargazing
- Kidnapped!
- The Helford Deal
- Me-too
- Crumpled Sheets and Death-fluffies
- Sweat, Joy and Thunderation
- Valley of the Sugars of Salt
- Catechismic Chaos
- Dr. Babiram's Potentials
- Exhibition
- The Refloat of D'Urbe Isle
- The Apple
- The Rest Cure
- The Magic Lino
- Call Me Omniscient
- Bluebird Pie
- Picking Blueberries
- The Wages of Food-Play
- OM
- The Ocean in Kansas
- Monterra's Deliciosa
- Literary Titan, Asher E. (huh?) Treat
- Pearls
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Anna Tambour
Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.
In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press) that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award. Also in 2009, her story "Gladiolus Exposed" was in the anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey), which was one of four anthologies shortlisted for the same award.
Tambour's collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & was published in 2003, Spotted Lily, a novel, in 2005, and Crandolin, a novel, in 2012.
