There Is No Wheel

There's a shark in the kitchen. A biology teacher dumps a dead angel onto his grandmother's dining room table. A billion bees swarm the Empire State Building. In an empty attic, a teapot filled with lizards reaches a boil. Everything is understood when a small-town sheriff bites into an eyeball. These are the scenes that draw you into the world of James Maxey. Good luck on finding your way back out. James Maxey's award winning short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and more than a dozen other magazines and anthologies. There Is No Wheel collects his 10 most critically acclaimed tales. "To the East, a Bright Star": A former circus aerialist rescues a trapped girl as the ultimate natural disaster draws nearer. "Silent as Dust": a tale of Seven Chimneys, a haunted house with one ghost too many. "Final Flight of the Blue Bee": The Blue Bee’s former sidekick, Stinger, is released from prison after 40 years. Can a venom gun, an army of bees, a