The Shape of a Miracle -- A pumice moon -- The hard wood chair -- The Hispano-Suiza -- (How He Did It) -- A New Home -- Three days -- Ghost dannce -- In lieu of Cointreau and milk -- School Days -- The state flower of Texas -- Breakfast in bed -- The waters of the Black Sea -- Up a tree -- A Grand Tour -- Little suitcases -- Big suitcases -- The dance of the bleu cheese -- The Ghost of Hamlet's Dad -- The scent of cherry tea -- Timbuktu to Taiwan -- A glass garden -- An Affair to Remember -- The Velvet Phantom -- The Saint of Hooverville -- What Jean Pierre Michel saw -- Machine guns and matzo ball soup -- Chernovsky's Total History of the World -- The Tenor's Daughter -- Cupid's prize -- Burnt Roses -- Blue Mama's Suicide Wail -- Repercussions -- Going -- Going -- Gone -- The Family Guildenstern -- Advice of a young hog -- A new life -- A doppelganger -- An Upside-Down World -- Flying eggs -- The splendor of a good pot roast -- A trick of memory -- The Calculator -- The Shadow of an Eclipse -- A feast of flesh and reason -- Deadly daffodils -- Strawberries and Little Sidney Lowenthal -- (How He Did It This Time) -- Ghosts -- Purim in January -- Sand -- Smoke -- What was hidden inside the breath-mint tin -- Whoopee -- A Farewell to Clam Sauce -- Brenda Ribenski's announcements -- Spiros Creopolis and the girls of Flo's -- Clown dreams -- Slings and arrows -- The Power of Bop -- The Sister's strange hand gesture -- A sea change -- Strawberry Delight -- Snow Falling Up -- Shadows in the desert.
Summary
A fantasy on a man who can appear and disappear at will, describing his escapades. In one, he steals antique weapons for his father, in another he tries to save a Jewish family from the Holocaust.
