MIDNIGHT OVER VENUS is a collection of feelings and emotions from Susan Joyner-Stumpf as she struggles each day to find her place in this world and to ever understand the enigmas she faces. To simply blend in among her friends and loved ones while battling her feelings, thus giving them validation to her at times unruly life. Susan writes of love and loss, depression and ecstasy, laughter and tears and her love of nature and animals. Coming to terms with a past that was full of cruelty and childhood abuse she suffered for many years into womanhood, through her poetry and the short stories, she takes you on a Magical Mystery Tour of questions with boundless emotions and pure fantasy mixed with an unsure reality. The journey has no one step destination. Take a ride on the dark and wild side of this Author's psyche and hope you come out on the other side of sanity... altered and forever transfixed in your world view of existence.