We lose everything because everything remains except us. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself.

Offers a collection of short stories written between 1991 and 1995, most of which were created on commission, and reflect the ways the author responded to the challenges of length and theme which were set for him.