A collection of short stories and one novella centered around a boy named Marvin Milstead growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This character was first introduced in Idle Essence -tales of Marvin and due to popular demand is back in another collection of tales. The stories Lunch With Miss Flossie and Whistle Through the Fence find Marvin at a young age as the trials and tribulations of the time play out around him, sometimes beyond his comprehension...