"What? You were expecting William Faulkner?"

--From the introduction

Award-winning author Matthew S. Rotundo is back with another collection of tales that will transport you through space and time. On this journey, you will discover...

• A down-on-her-luck movie star learning to fight back against a digitized Hollywood.
• A future in which Little Brother is always watching.
• The consequences one Holocaust survivor faces when offered a chance to change the past.
• A grieving father struggling to understand what has gone wrong with his cloned son.
• What one man would be willing to swallow for love.
• A world of athlete worship and biological enhancement, where the race is indeed to the swift-and one boy who chooses not to run.
• A group of friends, a game of poker, and an unexpected player who changes the way the cards fall, in more ways than one.
• How to get ahead in a world where knowledge is accessible via a brain implant-for a price.
• What the desperate will do to survive in the ruins of Hollywood.
• A competition in which the winner goes to work for a powerful demon. And the loser...
• A forbidding mountain on a distant world that holds the key to one man's salvation...or damnation.
• A lonely girl, a talking snake, and a castle full of secret wonders.

So there. Take that, Faulkner.