Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhood stories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Simultaneously playful and systematic, satirical and empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future.