 My name is Toni Murcivich and I'm the author of a new collection of linked short stories called Spell Heaven. The stories start with a lesbian couple who moved to a neighborhood in a seat post town in the Bay Area and aren't exactly welcomed. A lady comes over initially and says, I'm glad a gay couple had the guts to move on to this neighborhood. So it's not the most warm welcome and the narrator who works in academia doesn't feel quite welcome there either because she grew up in a fishing family in an academia that sometimes the clothes are clean but the politics are dirty. So she heads to the sea because she's lost something and she doesn't know what it is and there she meets the crab king. Kite man, a community of outsiders who welcome her in after a while and finding her way into that community is exactly where she wants to be. There she relearns the art of bullshit, which is the art of telling a good story. I'm very happy to be here with this book and thank you to the library for letting me bring it your way.