Sometimes you just want a cup of coffee and not the whole pot (or whole plot) so this is a collection of short stories.  What they have in common is a beer.  The place where the beer is to be found, actually.  Meet the crowd who frequents The Queen’s Bottom where the beer isn’t watered down (much) and the Aleman  always listens…

This piece introduces Granny who is not what she seems. She collects orphaned wounded and needy folk. She may or may not be a witch but she certainly embraces “the knowin'” and it is unfortunate that what men consider unimportant may make all the differance.