My name is Ishmael. Let me tell you about my dream. The other night I dreamed I had died and gone to hell. I finally met the Chief, the Head DevilÑOld Scratch himself. He seemed to be expecting me, and suggested we talk as we walk around while I choose what I would like to do for eternity. This surprised me, but he explained that not everybody gets to choose, and I soon saw why. It must be based on their professions on Earth. He acted as if he liked me and we carried on an interesting conversation as we went. He told me many stories over the next few hours, many of which I will repeat as we go along exactly as he told them to me.
If, when you read one of my many fictional stories, you will understand that we write what we know, or what we imagine. All the stories herein took place in my imagination.
Allan Ishmael Young, manufacturing and publishing executive, is the author of many books and stories in many genres. This one is about him, or not!.