Forever confronting the ancient unanswerable question of the meaning and purpose of life, Arthur Telling's first collection of short stories brings ancient themes to life, from a four billion year old comet ISON wondering about his purpose for existing, on through an historical drama of a man with a suicidal drive for martyrdom mistaken as Jesus and crucified, to modern day stories like his "Ryan" series challenging the "tales" told by modern science of a lifeless exploding universe catapulting consciousness into a material evolution of forms.