Novelette
The Miracle of Ivar Avenue
- by John Kessel
- in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al., January 1996
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.