Twenty stories--funny, spooky, intense, magical--by actor, playwright and writer Daniel Lillford. Many of the tales explore a certain fishing community on the South Shore of Nova Scotia; others take us as far afield as the Channel Islands. These are the best short stories I've read. And I read short stories all the time, and only the best. In a world where information is dependent upon Google, where approvals by bots and fake accounts are the norm, where social influencing is seriously recommended by job counsellors, where review by celebrities and reality stars outweighs critical scrutiny and the emerging generation is hard-wired to prefer image over literature, the maestros of serious writing are those who can genuinely interpret the world for us. And this is what Daniel Lillford so brilliantly does. He uniquely interprets his world with an amazing array of oddities, so matchlessly that Dylan Thomas might consider plagiarising a few for a rewrite of Under Milk Wood , Roald Dahl might benefit from a Lillford workshop and Edgar Allan Poe might learn a trick or two about twists and turns. I kid you not. His writing is genius. Informative, insightful, unpredictable, character driven and alive with imagination. Read them. You'll thank me eternally. Daniel's writing is a legacy to humanity, now, tomorrow and forever. Ray Mooney, author of A Green Light Daniel Lillford is a professional actor and playwright who has been working in the entertainment industry for over 42 years. He has had more than 35 productions of his plays in Canada, The United States, Australia and Scotland. He spent his childhood in Jersey, Channel Islands; his formative years in Australia; and immigrated with his wife, Rachel, to Canada more than 25 years ago. They have three sons and live in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. When Daniel is not acting, or working on his growing collection of short stories, he can often be found walking along the Fundy coastline with his border collie. As always the lure of the sea remains a source of calm inspiration and wonder.