In the Beginning collects 26 surreal short stories. Surreal stories are, in some way, impossible, dreamlike, hallucinatory. By their departure from the possible, surreal stories suggest definitions for reality that cannot be quite touched by stories that adhere to reality. Stories in this collection vary from very funny, to deadly serious, from hopeful, to darkly pessimistic, from existing to define something that cannot otherwise be defined, to existing simply for fun. There is no effective way to describe 26 very different short stories in a short space. Read the available sample, and if the quality of writing keeps your interest alive, buy the book. Six of the stories in this collection were published in The Sun and in Bellowing Ark.