New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve humorous and satirical short stories, including the Nebula Award winning story "Bible Stories For adults No. 17:The Deluge." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens with the comment "They wouldn't let me be God, so I wrote these stories instead" and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-151001928.