A collection of speculative short stories by New Zealand authors Matt and Debbie Cowens (authors of Mansfield with Monsters, Steam Press 2012). Includes stories previously published at Every Day Fiction, Shades of Sentience, Prinkipria and in the anthologies The Future is a Foreign Country and Tales for Canterbury.Titles in this anthology A Final Glimpse of Light and Dark, a Victorian crime horror, originally published by Shades of Sentience* No Hidden Costs, a near-future speculative tale, originally published in The Future is a Foreign Country (Random Static Press)* The Death Meter, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction tale originally published by Every Day Fiction* Shore Leave, a science fiction story originally published in Tales for Canterbury (Random Static Press)* The Show of Wondrous Creatures, a depression era fairy tale originally published by Prinkipria* Murray the Sex Machine, a PG rated SF story originally published by Shades of Sentience* The Delightful Maiden, a cyberpunk story originally published in Tales for Canterbury (Random Static Press)* Beauty and the Old Maid, an alternate take on a classic fairy tale, originally published by Enchanted Conversation* Minor Rampage, a silly SF story originally published by Every Day Fiction* The Maze, a modern fairy tale* The Death Star of New Bethlehem, an SF Christmas tale* Waste Not, a short SF story originally published by Antipodean SF
