Harrigan's Price and Other Stories

Book excerpt: Christian Bauer’s short stories range from out-of-control Thanksgiving turkeys to a fighter pilot’s fateful flight and take the reader from a pizza delivery joint to a homemade backyard rocket ship. Machines have minds of their own with a love for pranks (or even more deadly plans). Sometimes, if you just wait, serendipity solves the problem. This collection highlights some of Bauer’s most loved previously-published short stories including “Fresh, Never Frozen” and “Harrigan’s Price,” while introducing several never-before-published titles, created especially for this collection.