The main story is a novelette, The Brighton Tarot Card Mystery. This story is a delightful little romp through the streets of Brighton, England with a self styled detective chasing the young thief who stole a mysterious deck of Tarot Cards that is gaining a reputation for for accurately predicting the future. There are a dozen additional short stories that offer a range of topics, some taken from life and others that are purely fictional. A Million, Million, Stars is a true story of a child living in a lumber camp that includes about being chased by a fictional bear, and a fictional story that includes an encounter with a bear and ends with an encounter with aliens called Camping Can Be Fun. There is a Halloween story about a magician that should be more careful what you wish for. Other stories are about an encounter with an alien who gets her revenge and there is a western, Angelic Stranger, about a gunslinger who causes chaos by minding his own business.
Then there is a story Brighton Beach, about a boy who drowns, by metaphorically playing with fire and gets burned by an ocean storm. Next is The Trial that take place in another dimension when a soul requests the court of Universal Justice to cancel his birthing plans. Next is the story of, The Scrubbing Woman; and the resulting effects of an accidental pregnancy. Another story is a fictional beginning of the new ice age called Snow Day. In Bluebonnets Grow Wild, it's OK to fix a horse race once, but fixing it twice is a no-no. In The Alien don't mess with the alien from the Mother ship or she will get her revenge.
Born in 1940 Neall Ryon can truly be considered a Renaissance man. Since, as a teenager, he heard Socrates' maxim that an unexamined life is a wasted life, Neall has focused on seeking to understand the meaning of life, his life. Apart from being a perennial student of life, his work history includes a variety careers as a research manager, a business consultant, a business owner, a teacher, a husband, a father, a wanderer, a poet and for a year the co-host of a radio show; World Poetry Café. In his travels throughout the world and his wanderings through a life of adventure he sought to answer the question; "What is there in life that is real and meaningful?" He concluded that a meaningful path was not to be found in the experiences of life's external offerings but in seeking out the truth that hides within each of us ... our inner spirit, our Soul. The conclusion is it is not what you do in life that gives it meaning, it's the passion with which you live it.
