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Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson and the Convergence Saga. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov's Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror. He has won both the Neukom Institute Literary Award and a Lambda Award, and been shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and the Shirley Jackson Award.

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From award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes a brilliant collection of short stories, including old favorites and brand-new adventures.

Eighteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality.

A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven and the truth about why the world ended. Three siblings write intimate letters as their society slips ever deeper into dystopia.

On an island where locals use cooperative AI to survive hurricanes, a journalist returns home to cover their story and reconnect with her past. A wayward god sets out to find the source of all gods. But can they survive to tell the tale?

After a whimsical attempt to teleport proves successful, a couple finds that their conflicting feelings about the event are threatening their marriage. In a world where multiple souls can inhabit the same body, a recovering addict confronts his family about a terrible secret.

A monster who lives on human blood finds her undoing in the loneliness she carries within her heart.

In his debut collection, acclaimed novelist Cadwell Turnbull takes readers across an omniverse of monsters, gods, and people, all trying to make peace with the parts of themselves they don't want others to see. Until they are forced to face all their hidden places.