A collection of flash fiction from Sippican Cottage. Sippican Cottage offers 37 sly vignettes, with all the life you can handle in every paragraph. His method: choose a random picture from the Library of Congress and then infuse it with all the warmth and pathos his imagination and heart can muster. Sippican Cottage lives in western Maine, where he makes too much furniture to be called a writer, writes too much to be mistaken for a businessman, and spells too well to be mistaken for an intellectual. Read him daily at SippicanCottage.blogspot.com Contents 1. The Devil's In The Cows -Laissez Faire, boy. 2. So What -Life is dirty like a curtain. 3. Hope Street -A one-act play in the sleet. 4. Ginger Ale -Saved by soda 5. It All Just Was -Scree-bap 6. Holding It Back -Beware the quiet guys. 7. They Run And Hide Their Heads -Rain in the city is wasted. 8. Jupiter And Mars -The Dentist Yankees ogle my wife. 9. A Life Full Of Nothing -Father was full of worms. 10. A Fresh Crop Of Rocks -A one-act play in the street. 11. Tommy Walnuts -You're never alone. 12. The Odd I Torium -Step right up. 13. The Beer Is Getting Warm -There's nothing soft in a bar. 14. Rich Men Have Real Estate -The lever big enough to lift the whole earth. 15. The Woodpile At Night -Baby, it's cold outside. 16. A Thousand And One -A book and a man needs a spine. 17. It's Still Warm By The Stove -'Skinny from mindless exertions' need not apply. 18. In My Cups -Yeah, so? What's it to you? 19. Infinite Calculus -On the button. 20. The Rusty Bucket -The water tastes funny. 21. Big Mistake -Never look back. 22. What Time It Ain't -I feed the machine, the machine feeds me. 23. E Tan E Epi Tan -With your shield or on it. 24. Three-Quarter Cape -A certain sort of house. 25. The Young Man Don't Know Nothing -I know I didn't. 26. She Called It The Piazza -She pressed a quarter in my hand like a card trick. 27. Fog In New Beige -An indistinct ghost story. 28. The Ten Fingers -Everyone needs a boost now and then. 29. Spring Potatoes -Don't go quiet before your time. 30. Take Your Image -I am not an animal. 31. The Fish No Coom -After a while, the pinches add up. 32. The New Churchill -Transients welcome. 33. Das Is Culch -I speak German. That doesn't mean anything. 34. The Writer -This is how I go, when I go like this. 35. Coal Breaker -Look on it. 36. One Quarter Rich - Birth of a notion. 37. The Same River -Maybe she doesn't know me.