Return to Ken Scholes' Imagination Forest in this third collection of quirky, off-beat stories. In these 17 tales, Scholes displays a deft ability at smart storytelling and savvy, poetic prose. Here in the Imagination Forest, you never know who - or what - you'll come across. "Scholes's third Imagination Forest collection (after Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars, and Other Unusual Suspects ) continues exploring the limits of speculative fiction in 17 short stories whose genres include playful fantasy and SF as well as edge-of- your-seat suspense. Scholes revels in the offbeat and surreal, marrying otherworldliness with very real human fears and concerns, and his stories are all the richer for it.The collection has a distinctive rhythm, with the novella-length standout piece "A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves" bookended by shorter vignettes. Scholes's work is considerably inventive, and this collection showcases his versatility as a writer." --Publishers Weekly "Ken Scholes is a powerhouse.

The stories he flows into the world are lightning strikes of wonder and emotion that will change the way you see life, love, despair, and grief. --J.A. Pitts, author of Black Blade Blues "Stunning and a delight to read . Scholes] will make you think and he will paint pictures in your mind that will remain long after you close the anthology." --Mary Robinette Kowal, author of The Glamourist Histories "Ken Scholes mixes wildly beautiful imagery with the sharply visceral; the profoundly mythic with the profanely human. These keenly observed stories of faith, love, and loss will resonate in your bones." --Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin.