Rarities and Unexpected Steps

More extraordinary stories from one of today's most unpredictable writers.A young couple trapped by murderous criminals defend each other with the single deadliest weapon known to humanity...A college student taking a survey for easy cash discovers that it just might change her life forever...A men's club in Victorian England is the place to go for stories, whether you want to hear them or not...A man having his lunch on a city is bench is confronted by an urgent request from an alien civilization...A secret agent learns the origin of all those deathtraps he's had to escape all these years......all these and many more tales of the strange and uncanny!