¿A maestro of the field, Gene O¿Neill¿s stories are consistently well-executed. He writes with authority, depth, and loads of worldly and writerly experience, and delivers fascinating stuff.¿ ¿ Darren Speegle, author of The Third Twin and Varying DistancesHitch a ride with the master of setting as he blends and bends genres with science-rich, thought-provoking short stories. ¿Buy the ticket, take the ride.¿Along the way you will travel to the top of Mt. George, up and down Napa Valley, through Sacramento, and into the heart of the Bay Area, to the `Loin in San Francisco, Hotel Reo, Chapel of the Chimes, the back streets of Oakland, and other familiar dark places. The stories explore quantum entanglement, Visual Migraine Events, electro-shock treatment, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Tourette¿s syndrome experimentally treated with Temporary Deep Brain Stimulation. And as you read you may start to notice all these stories are connected in a way. It¿s a wild ride through genre-bending fiction, but well worth the ticket.