These lively and likable “accounts of no consequence” range from legend to mystery, and take the reader on adventures in frozen Norse isles, sunny La Jolla, bomb-torn Tora Bora, and other curious and consequential places.

Paul Kennedy Mueller is the author of The Pandemonium Bar & Grill (and Other Stories), Pretty Bad Stories (An Unfortunate Collection of Troublesome Tales), Mostly True Tales (and Otherwise Preposterous Accounts), The Satisfaction of Revenge and Other Poems, and other works of fiction, journalism, and poetry. An Army brat and Vietnam veteran, he now works as a senior public information officer for the University of California at San Diego.