"A Confluence of Grapes" is humor writer Steve Pulley's third volume of short stories and poems. In this collection you'll find romance, tragedy, angst, euphoria, adventure, thrills, spills, impending disaster, unforeseen windfalls, aliens of this world, aliens not of this world, Pangborneans galore, doppelg ngers, pugs, pookas, magicians, Korean soap opera freaks, Phrigofaxian abacus freaks, bedtime stories, werewolves, ghosts, blanked-out writers, overwrought actors, buccaneers in arrears, hilarious undertakings, awkward encounters, and an all-around mixed bag of goofy goings-on. And every once in a while, there's actually even something serious and thought-provoking.