Collection of family stories. All of the stories are untrue, and therefore Alton has identified them as family hoaxes. Alton writes about her mother being the queen of family hoaxes, possessing the ability to get anyone to believe anything. She addresses the relationship between parents and their children as well as between siblings. Created by Cathleen Alton while she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 class during the fall semester of 2001.