“Charlie. I can hardly believe it’s you. How long has it been?”

“I can’t remember that far back. Not since the shock treatments. As you can see, I got over my phobias about telephones. If I’m going to get cancer from Ma Bell then bring it on! Remember that phone routine that Bob Newhart used to do. It made me nauseous. All these radio waves, microwaves, all this electricity pouring through the air. The secret war of the twentieth first century is giving me migraines. I was reading Newsweek and found out that migraines can be cured by eating trout. I went out for dinner and ended up in the emergency ward. I’m allergic to fish and I didn’t know it. Did you hear the one about the small mouth bass and the drunk. They are sitting at the bar. The bass kept belching. The drunk turned to the fish. ‘You should stop drinking.’ The bass turned back to the drunk. ‘Would you prefer that I was farting?”

Several Incidents in Frank Craven's Week is a novelette, Part of a multi series of books under the banner THE INVISIBLE MAN. A college teacher in mid life starts over with a new wife and child. A friend from childhood is returning to town with a surprise announcement. Old friends meet again. And a serial killer is checking out power saws in the local hardware store.