The discovery of a missing asset leads Rosalie to a desperate bid for recon and recovery with Syd as last-minute draft pick for final summer session. Luckily the Stinging Nettles Cafe is on standby with golden rings, puff tots and deep-fried snickers. A 24-panel imaginal. Order of Rings is the fifteenth installment of the Uncommon Synths Saga.

Author Brian Parrish is an awed believer in the power of story and a regular patron of the dreaming. However, he's best known as a virtual stunt pilot, human cannonball coach, Indianapolis slot car racer and tender tiger tamer?in a parallel universe, that is, where his Elkhart Blue 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS has been impounded for extraordinary parking fee accumulation. In this one, he scribbles the odd story and subscribes to the International Psychic Cat Network. He lives in the rolling red hills of Virginia with an ambling caravan of family, friends and familiars.