"Gary Paul Bryant will wheel your gurney down the paranormal corridors of Life Everlasting, whether you're willing or not. A must-read short story collection for vivisectionist aficionados, fantasy enthusiasts and all the rest of us hanging on to dear life." - Jack Archibald Enjoy this must read collection of paranormal short stories that will have you feverishly turning each page with nervous anticipation! The Phone and Other Short Stories is a collection of nine short reads that in all, creates a battleground between the likes of Hitchcock and Twain. In this newest release, Bryant spins a new world with science and time travel in nine tall tales that contain subtle social themes mixed with a refreshing dose of self-deprecating humor. The book includes the main title story The Phone, as well as A Man of Proverbs, A Bitter Climb, Stall, Gleason Snickell and the Search for Love, In the Woods Where the Widow Sings, Sweet Tooth, Awkward and The First Ride: The Real Story of Santa Claus. The 19th century legend and humorist Mark Twain once said, "If that rapscallion Bryant ever makes it into this world, pay no mind and remove yourself, lickety-split! His tom foolery and short story shenanigans will decompose your sense of humor, as well as your belief in the hereafter or wherever your horse will take you!" "I might have come across Gary in a fire tower up in Washington State he was scribbling something about time travel. Can't say I really knew him. Though I understand that his old man sold one helluva Drake's Cake." - Jack Kerouac For the last couple of years, Gary has quietly been making a foray into the world of fiction writing. Through his latest work The Phone and Other Short Stories, we encounter a more in-depth exploration of his humor and zany imagination, previously only hinted at in his musical oeuvre. Claimed to be not so dissimilar from the work of Tom Robbins, when Gary's social commentary isn't being portrayed in some thinly disguised literary game, his writing is just downright funny. He resides on the shores of the great Pacific Northwest with his pet barnacle, Ryan.