Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018, “Retirement” is the first story in this collection of stories. Each story bends reality and holds a twist: unusual, spiritual, fantastical, or horrifying. One story is set in the distant future. An article of clothing holds supernatural qualities. What lurks in dark closets? What could possibly be worse than a vampire?

Each tale examines a person’s place in the world and how the world treats them. Karma may not be what each of them expects.

Included is “The Circle is Forged,” a prequel story to Plants’ time travel fantasy, A Circle in Time, available at Amazon.

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