The tiny chapel church had a weekly women’s coffee clutch called Just Dessert For Sisters. The free cakes, pies, and coffee were supposed to attract new members. Yet only three faithful sisters gathered in the quaint kitchen at the round table that fall season. They followed the scripture that commanded to eat, drink and be merry. It was their one sanity preserver in this life. From the eldest to the youngest, they laughed as they recalled the golden days of the past. They challenged each other to recall better times in the age of B.M. meaning Before Marriage. Meanwhile they grimaced that their marriages were hell on earth.

This is, by the way, for a five-page short story.

When an autistic child accidentally kills her twin, the balance of her mind is disturbed and she is institutionalised. As her late teens approach she is guided back towards ‘the normal world’ by her psychiatrist, but as he delves deeper, he discovers that her mind is very far from ‘normal’ and far stranger than he could ever have imagined. Neither human nor alien she is something this world has never seen before and after a number of incredible journeys, the true nature of her reality is finally revealed.

294 pages of this? Shut up and take my money!