TRACES OF OBLIVION, William J. Grabowski's short fiction (and one complete novel, THE UNTOLD) is populated with darkness and dread and monstrosity...and things blacker far than those, spawned in nightmares (and mundane daylight) provoked by the despair and alienation spreading through our fragmented world like thorny vines pulsing with toxins. The short stories, and novel, herein range from 1985 to 2014; literary footprints journeying from Back in the Day, to the No-Longer-Twenty-Something years, through a dark stretch of nothingness, right up to Now. The path was never linear...occasionally discursive...and littered with plenty of crushed cans and smashed bottles.