Sinner and saints, villains and heroes, the children, women and men in these stories all find ways to survive in wicked times. Some of these stories are old and were written down decades go. Some are new. Some of these stories make me laugh. Some stories were inspired by my ill-spent youth. Some are wicked inventions. Two are short memoirs about wicked people. I fell over them so often in dark dreams that I was forced to dig them out of the sludge of my memory and expose them to light.