Gathered here in this Volume are five shorter Tales, selected due to their possessing a common theme, the acquisition of Wisdom or the lack of it. Pages of Wisdom is an allegorical fantasy about a Giant who steals the wisdom of the Valley's inhabitants, keeping it shut in tomes. The Farm is an eerie tale of a woman farmer who encounters God the Father in human guise, is aided by him, and resenting it, kills him. Guardians relates the challenge of Clondo, a Guadian of the stories, to his superiors as he Intervenes in a Story to save a character he has fallen in love with. The sequel, Hand of the Bean, deals with Clondo entering a rogue Story out of fiction. Gun Control is a Catholic end-times novel of gun owners protesting gun control, to find themselves caught up in the Apocalypse.