..". this is a voice that is unfortunately not often heard from."-Albuquerque The Magazine on Parallels.... Eight tales from different worlds.... From a slayer of the undead going on a first date with the girl of his dreams; to a middle-aged woman confronting four doppelgangers of herself; to a middle school geek coming to grips with the consequences of being able to hack into other minds; to three individuals encountering the weird in the Wild West-these and the other tales in this collection explore the threshold between endings and beginnings, reality and fantasy, despair and hope."