The author has not included all the short stories he has written or published in this collection. These stories however chart in some way the author’s parcours through some of Europe’s major urban centres. The author does not wish to mask the fact that he has drawn from his own experiences to fashion these stories. As such, any resemblance to any person living or dead has to be purely co-incidental.The long short stories may be thought of as potential novellas or novels in gist. The author would have had need of more time and leisure – which he obviously had not had – to convert them into novels. The long short stories were all of them written at one go in 1993 during moments snatched from  his professional duties. Five of the stories have already appeared in print. See the following books: "Everybody has a good story: Football", Barcelona: caféDiverso, 2006; T.Wignesan, Ed., "Bunga Emas: An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature, 1930-63", London:Blond & Raybooks, 1964; & T. Wignesan, "Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: Studies in Tamil Topics", Chennai, India: Institute of Asian Studies, 2006.