Sideshow and Other Stories is at once the story of a writer who has reached a crisis point in his own writing, and his encounters with another, older writer who he comes to regard as his lost literary father. Sideshow and Other Stories also contains five stories by this older writer, as well as notes, uncollected phrases, of a sixth story with the apparent working title of Sideshow. CONTENTS: Foreword, The Malignant Matrix, Premature Communicati on, The Astronomic Blur, The Abyss of Organic Forms, The Phenomenal Frenzy, Afterword.