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Calvin is alone for the first time in over 60 years after his wife, Emily, died. He isn't taking it well. A longtime family friend, Edward White, comes to check on him and talk him out of doing the unthinkable. He just hopes he isn't too late to help.

A man named Luke writes of a mysterious, tragic event that transformed his very being...and left him scarred by the fire he created.

Richard hated being a corporate drone, but what else was there to be in Corprotopia? After losing his girlfriend to the government, Richard struggled with just surviving, but when he learns a deep secret, a secret of resistance, he suddenly finds a reason for his life...or does he?

Brendan Carter has trouble controlling fits of rage. Last night he took one fit too far and he killed a man. Watch through his point of view as he decides how to deal with the repercussions of his actions. What will he do with the body? Who will he tell? Will he run? Will he get away, get caught, or do the noble thing and turn himself in?

Sarah Sutton, the Midwife of Donbridge, faces a great evil from her past. The plagues foretold by the Witch of Tamarack Hill have begun. Drought, illness, and unwelcome creatures have overwhelmed the town. Many bleak moments have placed families in peril, but the courageous Midwife, armed with her knowledge and steadfast will, intends to rid this evil from Donbridge for good. During her quest, she is faced with two foes of wicked power which many have believed to be mere fables.

In a world ruled by the church, Janali finds herself at the mercy of the inquisition. She has little chance of saving her crew from the church while under arrest for heresy. She must engineer her own escape and then convince the head of the church to pardon both her and her crew. If she fails, her crew, her family, and her own lives will be destroyed, wiped clean by the cleansing fires of the inquisition.

Dana Elson never should have drunk that soda. Now she's sharing her body with the clone of a dead man - and she and the clone's gun-happy boyfriend are on the run from the sinister Mahler Corporation. Can Dana to get her own body back before Mahler catches up to them?

Captain Reinvo is ordered to take a prototype iron-sided steamship on its first voyage. The simple cargo run turns deadly when a storm drives the ship so far off-course the crew is sure they're going to fall off the edge of the world. Reinvo fights to save his crew, only to discover a place that shouldn't exist and which may yet get them killed as heretics.

Within the short stories of this powerful anthology, author Jeffrey Dean Doty explores the beautiful and tragic moments that flow through lives of ordinary people. The result is anything but ordinary.