The author of The Keyhole Opera (World Fantasy Award 2006) is back with 52 stories about children and parents, lovers and rivals, seven deadly sins, and the adventures of the Montreal poet Donat Bobet. Rogers is a two-time winner of the international Micro Award for fiction under 1,000 words, and this collection demonstrates his continued mastery of the flash-fiction form.

Bruce Holland Rogers has been writing fiction full-time since 1991. His works range from literary and experimental to SF, fantasy, and mystery, and many of the stories in "The Keyhole Opera" began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and anthologies.