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In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us.

Jason Kennly needs to get a closer look when he spots a gray leather collar from across the dealers’ room at a science fiction convention, even if there’s no way he can afford it on his college stu

Pasha Batalov has lived his whole life doing what a good son is expected to do.

Outcast werewolf Alun Blayney is jaded, fearful of what could happen if even one human were to discover monsters are real.