Out of the Window

This little book of collected short stories looks 'out of the window' onto many different scenes: the town of Chatham in the 1850's; a smuggling ship trying to make land; the 10th Cavalry in the Dakota Territories; a high ranking T'ang dynasty Chinese lady coping with the death of her husband; an archaeologist on a newly opened planet making a major discovery; a Valentines card which manages to travel 50 years into the past; a warrior elf banished into a world with no magic and the answer to the question of 'will the ghost of a medieval abbey appear this Midsummer'?