Paul Crawford's senior year of high school is quickly coming to a close. While his classmates start a twisted wager to see who will die before graduation, Paul concerns himself with more serious matters: building up the courage to ask the new girl at school out on a date. Described as "weird" by everyone, including Paul's best-friend Matt Wexler, Fay is an enigma with lapis lazuli colored hair and a tragic past. Then one reckless weekend fate brings Paul, Fay, and Wex together, changing their lives forever.

August Engstrom's life is a mess. Forced to move back home after losing his scholarship, Auggie now works the night shift at the local university library while he struggles to keep his grades above water. To make matters worse, his mother doesn't know the real reason for his return home. She thinks he's come back to care for her post-stroke. Then one stormy night everything changes when he gives in to temptation and tries an enhancement ointment he knows he shouldn't. And as with all such "too-good-to-be-true" promises--this one is no exception. Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight is an...

Chris inherited The White Hart from his father, but he has never told anyone the story of how the tavern got its name until one Christmas Eve. Set during the early twentieth century in Northern Wisconsin, The White Hart captures the voice and ethos of the hard-working railroad and lumbermen who made the "North Woods" a place of myth and legend.

THE WAY OF THE WORLDS Adam mumbled a question and then Emily said something about rabid dust bunnies, but Ryan couldn't clearly make out their words. The two sounded distant, as if Emily and Adam were farther away than they really were. Ryan, on the other hand, was a lot closer to the opening. It gaped before him, a hole where wall and baseboard should be, shimmering the way the sky does on a very cold night. A draft of cool air brushed his face. He shivered. The air smelled of outdoors, of autumn, of the October night it was: a mixture of burnt leaves, frost-covered lawns, and something else...

Andrew Jones is content to work in his office cubical year after year, flitting away the hours while he daydreams of his one true love. Then one day he's unexpectedly summoned to the Corporate CEO's office. Set on a seemingly simple errand, events quickly unfold for Andy, sending him crashing headlong into a future that will see him become a true hero of the employed--the world's first Desk Jockey Emperor.

In "Little Tornado," Lily Ann, her mother, and her younger twin sisters are hiding out from Hurricane Joe, Lily's father. Lily knows she's Joe's kid because she inherited his magical abilities that allow her to control water. Sort of. While she uses her powers to keep the summer hot and rain free at the North Woods trailer park where the family is living, her struggles with Watermagic parallel her difficulties getting control of her everyday life. In "Sea Witch of the Desert," Brenda receives a mysterious magical boat for her fifteenth birthday. Able to fly, the boat leads Brenda off into the...