The Ones who are Waving Tales of the Strange, Sad, and Wondrous

"With his latest collection, critically acclaimed and award-winning storyteller Glen Hirshberg offers a vivid travelogue through landscapes both geographical and emotional, on the way to destinations as wondrous as they are unsettling. This volume also contains three linked adventures about The Collector, who trades in cryptic experiences at the edges of dreams: a grocery store in the desolate east of New Mexico which houses a collection too distrubing even for him: a marine repository for legendary long-lost musical recordings: a bakery whose proprietor has developed a dessert a little too tasty for eating. Having circled the globe, the book returns home to conclude with the luminous title story, a meditation on the ways fiction transforms writers and audience alike, inspired by the author's own performing experiences with the touring ghost story troupe known as The Rolling Darkness Revue. Here, then, is a wanderer's lament. A ballad of discovery and its costs. A whistling stroll in the shadows with The ones who are waving." -- p.[2] of cover.