Weird times call for weird fiction. Please join us tonight for a new favorite short story that is neither fantasy... nor science fiction... nor horror... but something even stranger!

"The Quintana Roo is a real and very strange place," writes Dr. Alice B. Sheldon - aka James Tiptree, Jr. "It is the long, wild easternmost shore of the Yucatan Peninsula, officially but not psychologically part of Mexico. A diary of daily life on its jungly beaches could sometimes be mistaken for a log of life on an alien planet."

During the late 1970s, the author - one of the greatest American authors of short imaginative fiction - lived for months on the eerie windswept shore of the Yucatan, and the true protagonist of our story tonight is neither the narrator nor the manifestations of the ancient Maya civilization, but rather the Quintana Roo itself as a living, pulsating entity that envelops the reader within a uniquely alien ambience.

In these pages, Tiptree presents a mysterious numinous milieu in which an emissary from the sea beckons an unwary wayfarer into the realm of dead souls. Visions of wonder, intimations of doom... "What Came Ashore at Lirios" is an incantation from a master literary sorceress.

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