The Last Night at the Jupiter Saloon

Forty-Three Short Stories by Jim Driesen

Contents

Preface

1. Metamorphosis
2. Back in the Day
3. Been Here, Done That
4. Back to School and Other Alien Pranks
5. Swamp Song
6. Follow That Car
7. The Last Hit
8. When I Close My Eyes
9. To Each His Due
10. The Little Green Man
11. Winter Song of the Meadow
12. Graveyard Shift
13. Felonious Advance
14. Cyborg XT
15. Santacide
16. Baseball Tips for Parents (Even Babe Ruth Had to Start Somewhere)
17. Vegetable Farm
18. Chasing Cats
19. The Music Never Dies
20. Sticks and Stones
21. Pondering The End
22. It Was a Good Year
23. The Second Asteroid
24. The Thinker
25. Dog Days
26. Doing Dickens Off Broadway – Way Off
27. Having Hitler for Dinner
28. Sunny Day in Seattle
29. The Sniper
30. The Crow
31. The Final Chapter
32. Pages of Life
33. Munich 1973
34. Faces in the Window
35. For Allison
36. Opportunity and Wisdom
37. The Last Night at the Jupiter Saloon
38. Civility 300 BCE (BC)
39. The Phone Number
40. The 59 Caddy
41. The Day the Crows Left Town
42. Solstice
43. The Old Man and the Dog

A diverse collection of forty-three stories inhabited by eclectic characters waiting to meet you:

• A stranger enters a saloon in a desolate, baking hot town in the Arizona desert with a cryptic warning.
• A murder mystery involving Santa Claus.
• Ghosts with a sense of humor haunting a graveyard on Halloween.
• Dogs chasing cats, kids playing T-ball, what really happened to Hitler, and aliens from Alpha Centauri that have plans for planet earth.
• Plus, many more. Sit back in a comfortable chair and enjoy the journey.