Dancing on the head of a pin: Tales & Poems

by Peter Elyakim Taussig

A collection of magical short stories told in prose and poetry. In Montr al an heir to a fortune is on the run and hiding from his billion dollars. In Prague an artist of microscopic miniatures has his life's work vacuumed up by mistake. A woman in Berkley California is convinced that her entire family has been abducted and replaced by imposters, and Jehovah, God almighty, working as a junior librarian in Toronto, is engaged in a life or death battle with His creator. These are just a few of the characters and situations inhabiting the hilarious, fantastic, and yet strangely familiar, world of these short stories and poems-each linked to all others by innumerable strands, like themes and motifs in a symphony. Together, they create a sweeping tapestry of that incomprehensible, precarious, and exhilarating thing we call the dance of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149972425X
• ISBN13: 9781499724257
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"