No swimming in Dark Pond and other chilling tales
No swimming in Dark Pond -- The notebook -- How I kill my stepmothers -- Tim the alien -- Randolph -- Hookman -- Dr. Egger's favorite dog -- Flawless beauty -- Nemesis -- The sufficient prayer -- Will -- Family vacation -- The last word.; "In this, her second volume of delightfully wicked tales, Judith Gorog invites us again to enter her most unnatural supernatural world."--Back cover.
Servants of the map: stories
Servants of the map --- The forest --- Theories of rain --- Two rivers --- The mysteries of Ubiquitin --- The cure.; Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion.