In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.
That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from the story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the volume you see before you.
This is not just a comedy anthology. Nor is it horror, or romance, or literary, or...well, any one thing. Rather, it is all those things. Each story starts exactly in the same place. But each author immediately leaps from there into their own world. This anthology celebrates the creativity of these authors, because it does not shackle them to a theme. The starting line is the same--the finish line is on other planets, in other times, and in alternate realities.
You're not going to feel cohesiveness reading this thing. It's not going to be several stories hitting the same note. But you are going to experience a wider panoply of stories than you would in other anthologies.
And as to what you make of them, or what stories they may inspire in you? Well...that's your cow.
 
SAM KNIGHT - Cows on the Wing
FRANCES PAULI - Matilda
R.J.J. GOUDE - Companions, Cliffs, and a Cow
LEE FRENCH - Ending
ELIZABETH R. ALIX - Freezer Camp
JOYCE REYNOLDSWARD - The Cow at the End of the World
WILLIAM GRAVES - The Cow Jumped Over the Moon
OLIVIA BAXTER HUDSON - All Things Golden
SANAN KOLVA - Imperial Battle Cow of New Brunswick
FROG AND ESTHER JONES - The Llanthony Livestock Litigation
MADISON KELLER - Blind Date Blues
DEBY FREDERICKS - The Elfin Cow
THOMAS GONDOLFI - Programming Loyalty
G.R. THERON - The Murder of Derek Volynsky
KAYE THORNBRUGH - 'Till the Cows Come Home
VOSS FOSTER - Demon with the Golden Horns
BETHANY LOY - Audumla's Apple
MANNY FRISHBERG - Ever After
RYAN RIDDELL - Remnant Dawn
 
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