"Christopher and Mary were looking for a place to have a picnic, not for a house, when they drove down the overgrown lane..."

A young couple bring life and love to an abandoned house--just what it needs. But what if there are residents that only the cat can see? And what does mistletoe have to do with it?

"He was an ordinary German, walking one night on a Berlin street, near where he lived, when a car turned the corner and followed alongside him at a crawl...."

"My earliest memory, one that I will never forget, is of being awakened from sleep, summoned up out of warm subterranean darkness by a hand on my shoulder...."

"They inhaled deeply, the warm organoleptic confluence of fictional flavors infusing them with a kind of charmed glow that they could never attain through mere sexuality..."

What exactly is going on between these two young people? The police would like to know. An investigation is underway.

"Light seeped through her eyelids and, though she wasn't quite awake, she could feel that she had a body, and that her body lived in the real world. The real world of pain."

"My car, with the drug in the boot, was tucked behind the rural filling station. Still hot and smoking, the machine had suffered catastrophic failure...."

"I’m Hermann Haber. Perhaps you’ve heard of my father. He won the Nobel Prize...."

"It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven’t done anything about it; I can’t think of anything to do."

"I'm in the cafe I frequent practically every day. I sit in the corner and bury myself in my phone. That is what I use to write with."