"Short Stack" is a collection of G. M. Frazier's short fiction. All four stories were previously published separately, and are available here for the first time in a single volume. "Brian's Wish" A poignant tale of love and devotion, Brian's Wish introduces us to Charles Vos, a jaded billionaire businessman who established a charitable foundation that grants the wishes of dying children. Normally, his involvement in granting wishes is limited to writing a check to the foundation each year. All that changes when they receive Brian's wish. "Gerard: Le Garcon Vampire" Gerard de Vigors died in the fall of 1855 at "Ransom," his family's plantation just south of New Orleans. He was ten years old. One-hundred and fifty years later, Jack Trask is facing a death sentence from cancer. Lured by the sales pitch of an online "vampire hunter," he has spent a small fortune traveling around the world in search of the one being he feels can save him. Now, in the ruins of that ancient and long forgotten plantation, Jack comes face to face with the creature he has been seeking for nearly a year. And it's not what he was expecting. "Old Joe" Adapted from a chapter in the author's novel, Return to Innocence, this short story tells the tale of a late fall camp out and the ghost story of "Old Joe" that suddenly becomes all too real. "Trick or Treat" On Halloween, 1973, two brothers make the mistake of looking for a treat at a dark house where a lone jack-o-lantern stands watch on the porch."