A man finds work in a temporary field and is pulled into a world of death-by-advertisements, sugary sweet firearms, immortality as punishment, and love as the ultimate currency. Visit a city built on science and magic populated by twelve million members of a single family. A government operative in an alternate Brooklyn of the 1950s discovers why Earth's colonization of space has come to an abrupt halt. A slayer of monsters finds that his enemies have finally beaten fear savagely into him. The famished Minotaur hopes for dinner and finds romance. These and other strange tales await you within these pages. Come explore The Substitute Secret Agent and Other Stories.