Up Above and Down Below

In this two-part story, two children journey through a fantasy land, in which they need allies to survive. A Sphere, a Rubbery Man, and a Rock Man join them in their quest. An evil Archon rules the world, who collects aliens as exhibits and seeks to use their body to regenerate himself. At the end of the first story they must fight the Archon who has become a thing with immense powers. This first story was previously published as "A World to the Side."

In the second story the two youths, who have become adolescents, encounter the Rock Man as a homeless person in their earth world. Together, they seek to help a runaway who dissociates into symbolic worlds because of abuse. The children are challenged to find the cause of her problem and to rescue her from a psychiatric hospital, where research subjects are being sought. They gain the help of a Homeless Outreach Worker, the father of the child, and in-breaking of the symbolic world. These stories give clues how help can come in varied ways and how in the end love triumphs.