The Moment Universe Stories 2
The Miracle of Ivar Avenue
by John Kessel
In 1949 Los Angeles, Detective Lee Kinlaw has writer/director Preston
Sturges down in the morgue. The only problem is that Sturges is still alive and well
in Hollywood.
— Michael Main
It’s a transmogrifier. A device that can change anyone into anyone else. I can change
General MacArthur into President Truman, Shirley Temple into Marilyn Monroe.
“The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” by John Kessel, in
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al.,
January 1996.