A book of five short stories1. "e;Oh threats of hell and hopes of paradise"e;2. "e;One thing at least is certain, this life flies"e;3. "e;One thing is certain and the rest is lies"e;4. "e;The flower that once has blown forever dies"e;5. "e;I sent my soul into the invisible some letter of the afterlife spell"e;My stories (five) are told in the first person and inspired by the "e;Rubaiyat"e; of Omar Khayyam, the twelfth century philosopher and Edgar Allen Poe. They tell of rape, murder, a philandering preacher, an engineer driven to the gates of insanity by his perfectionist ideals and a despondent professor attempting to leave his legacy by trying to prove Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious.
