The devil plays tennis with the last man in Chicago while a brontosaurus looms in the distance. An elderly blind woman thinks she's feeding the birds. A music industry insider falls short of immortality and makes a shocking confession. A girl with sharp teeth and an excellent sense of smell shops at a convenience store, avoiding chocolate. And fourteen more. ""Detzner's writing asks all the right questions, and answers just enough of them to leave your mind toying with the ideas for days ... If you're looking for cheap scares, look elsewhere. This is a writer that deals in an uneasy fear, in...

The Illinois Youth Center in Millersville is a maximum security prison for teenage girls. There are no newspapers allowed in the facility, no internet, no TV news. No way to tell that something in the world beyond the fence has gone very wrong. At least not at first. Brendan Detzner's short fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Pseudopod, Chizine, One Buck Horror, Tales to Terrify, the Exigencies anthology from Dark House Press, and many other venues. He is the author of two story collections, ""Scarce Resources"" and ""Beasts.""

"The Orphan Fleet" and "The Hidden Lands," the first two parts of the Orphan Fleet saga, available in print for the first time