This is a wry, witty, ingenious story, a tour de force of whimsy, not really a single story, but ten completely different micro-stories hung on the same peg. Tim Conley sets you up with an introduction in the voice of a folklorist or linguist who's found a peculiar idiom in rural Quebec --- le voisin n’a qu’une maison. It means something like "the neighbour has only one house," which, well, makes no sense. But the folklorist opines that there might have been a story behind the idiom, a tale lost to the ages. With that, Conley is off to the races.