It seems that Congress is not good for getting anything done these days, but one thing they ARE good at is holding hearings - investigating fairies, say, or kittens. These stories imagine how Congress is spending its time (and your money), and also - a moonlighting Darth Vader - a mysterious new source of quantum energy - an infestation of zombies in a small town in Maine - two new variations on a famous Christmas story by Charles Dickens.