Nove : Nine Nicked and Negligent Tales Taken from Mercury

These nine stories, scenes from faraway youth, would have been misremembered, truncated, and come into the present morphed into something distinct from what they once were; yet they still bear the better telling.

It is warranted, since all nine tales taken from Mercury do knit and meld themselves together to form a better whole to create a most pleasing portrait of the distant past.