An alien visitor gets sloppy drunk on Diet Pepsi. At the OK Corral, old-west spellslingers fire off incantations. Ancients from the Cretaceous emerge from Manhattan's subways. A scientist riles a Florida swamp shaman, and never sees the magic coming. Hunting a renegade, intercosmic rangers take the form of professional wrestlers. And then.... Is fact really stranger than fiction? Not in these fifteen stories.