Description: The thirty works in this fifth collection of short fictions trespass knowingly into fictional realms of droll lyricism, audacious description, studied anachronism, sensual immediacy and subtle compassion. In one, a woman waits at a window for the moon to return her body; another story reveals the triple identity of Don Juan; in still another, an itinerant tragedian invents a dangerous form of theatrical performance; and in the title story a dragon questions a youthful knight's errancy, as well as his sanity. Scattered throughout are nine pieces known as "sudden fiction," a genre Kelly named, while other tales appear in the guises of myths, letters, rituals, and even dreams.
