"As soon as the flash begins his footstep hits the ground and he is back where he belongs, treading silently between the breaths of the world."

A young woman searches for evidence of a king's deception that is keeping his people captive.

Is it the end of the world or just a scientist’s career?

"Beside him women and men on treadmills, some of whom are adpersons, too, hiding in plain sight among casuals, among also-rans; it's the determination, that saurian eye that's the giveaway."

Joel felt the love and peace of the afterlife once, and he'd do anything to experience it again.

Can an isolated Norwegian town convince a magical forest cat to help them in their time of need?

A doctor treats an unidentified man found wandering and raving who has a strange object inside his skull.

A crashlanding on an alien world, stranded and alone.

"Shards of light, impossibly sharp, spear my brain. Gasping, I move to sit, but dizziness makes the metal-colored clouds whirl. Vertigo awe-inspired by a sky so strange? Or just a head injury? I stay horizontal but force my watering eyes to remain open so they can adjust. So I can adjust."

Mary weighs her life plan against dropping off the edge of the world.

She did not fear dead people, but someone on her table who was potentially still alive set her skin crawling.