- Have you ever caught a falling star and put it in your pocket? - Can a woman take out life insurance on a tree? - Do monsters really live under your bed? How can you fight them? - Is making a deal with a djinni a good idea? How about a ghoul? - How does a stuffed animal escape a washing machine? Or a convict a Martian penal colony? - Would you like to fly? The Day the Exclamation Marks Came and Other Stories and Poems is a collection ranging from humorous to horrifying, romantic to sarcastic, speculative to-no. It's never mundane.