Consider Her Ways and Others

A collection of short stories including: Consider Her Ways (1956) Odd (1961) Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty? (1961) Stitch in Time (1961) Random Quest (1961) A Long Spoon (1960) Consider Her Ways: Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own. Odd: A tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused, and then learns the reasons why. Stitch in Time: An elderly lady reflecting on a lost love and, thanks to her sons' experiments with time, finally discovering the reason why her lover abandoned her so many years ago. Oh Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?: A social satire on Hollywood glamour in which a bright, individual young Irish woman becomes part of the celebrity circuit, and loses all that makes her special in the process of becoming a star. Random Quest: Combines romance and parallel universes. A Long Spoon: The story of how a demon is summoned by mistake and the lengths the couple that invoked him have to go to get rid of him without losing their souls in the bargain.