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Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart.

Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?

Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age.

"A collection of human interest stories set in different countries reflecting flights of imagination."--

Tasha and Trae try to save their marriage.

After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears.

After being trapped in an isolated car crash, the life of an elderly widower becomes entwined with that of a young college student and the cowboy she loves.

In 1876, in a remote mining camp in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in grizzly bear attacks. Now the historic cemetery has been dug up to make way for development.

The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat can talk his way into and out of anything.

This book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume.

As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.

Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology.

Emily Shepherd's dad, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, emerges from the woods carrying the broken body of Ashlee Parker and finds himself accused of murder.

Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island, Jacob and his friends must journey to London, encountering new allies, peculiar animals, and other surprises along the way.

Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world.