Kit Reed draws from life - with a difference. This new collection brings together thirty-four of her strong, original stories, from early classics like "The Wait" and "Winter" to six never-before-collected short stories, including "The Legend of Troop 13" and "Wherein We Enter the Museum". An early favorite, "Automatic Tiger", is the first in a series of Reed's stories about animals. There's a monkey who grinds out bestsellers with the help of a "creative writing" app. Her uncanny black dog can enter a crowded room and sit down at the feet of the next man to die. Her characters confront war in various arenas: mother/daughter battles, the war of the sexes, the struggles of men scarred by war. Kit Reed's self-described "transgenred" fiction is confirmation of what The Financial Times calls an "extraordinary talent". The range and complexity of her work speaks for itself in The Story Until Now. Contents:

• Introduction (2013) by Gary K. Wolfe
• Denny (2009)
• The Attack of the Giant Baby (1975)
• What Wolves Know (2007)
• Automatic Tiger (1964)
• Wherein We Enter the Museum (2013)
• High Rise High (2004)
• Piggy (1961)
• Song of the Black Dog (2005)
• Weston Walks (2011)
• How It Works (2013)
• Precautions (2000)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1992)
• Family Bed (2004)
• The Singing Marine (1995)
• In the Squalus (1972)
• Perpetua (2004)
• Pilots of the Purple Twilight (1981)
• Sisohpromatem (1967)
• On the Penal Colony (1998)
• The Food Farm (1967)
• In Behalf of the Product (1973)
• Songs of War (1974)
• Winter (1969)
• The Weremother (1979)
• Voyager (1996)
• Old Soldiers (2001)
• Incursions (2003)
• The Bride of Bigfoot (1984)
• The Zombie Prince (2004)
• Grand Opening (2005)
• Special (2009)
• Monkey Do (2010)
• The Outside Event (2011)
• The Legend of Troop 13 (2013)
• The Wait (1958)