Previously published as THE LOOSE PURPLE TIE: 3 NOVELLAS by Pete O'Brien. THE LOOSE PURPLE TIE NOVELLAS is the Second Edition of THE LOOSE PURPLE TIE: 3 NOVELLAS. The stories have the same titles as they did in the first edition: "The Loose Purple Tie," "The Box House," and "An Oceanographical Logic." They are explorations of how narratives get written in worlds that harbor such enigmas as an inexplicable woolly mammoth, a pickpocket cloud, and a cat who always speaks her mind. Pete O'Brien makes his thoroughly astonishing literary debut with this truly remarkable set of three.