Tom Cleaver is obsessed with sharpening knives and beomes an international celebrity in this absurd tale of a gifted child.Jim Langley lives in a marina, and loves to eat seafood. He unknowingly feeds a lobster who lives under his boat by tossing the scraps of leftovers from his large dinner parties. After decades, Jim comes down with gout, and must quit eating seafood. When the scraps are discontinued, the lobster must find a new source of food…A young man witnesses a horrific scene of gore as a group of sea monsters attack two islands that suffer massive earthquakes, toppling statues and throwing the citizens into the foamy seas.A passenger aboard a ferry submarine describes his trip across the bottom of the lake, and the and the interesting passengers sharing the voyage.A group of children lose control of their adult masters when their outing on the lake trail turns grim.An old man remembers a childhood evening fishing with his father on a calm lake on the Great Plains.
