A woman finds her destiny in a shop run by an alien...shattered glass on a desert floor holds the secret to star-crossed lovers reuniting...in the Antarctic night the sea is rising and a vortex begins to open...a face cream sold at a circus is not what it seems...a witch in training discovers her power to create spells of light...a magician seeks revenge...a child draws visions of the future that come to life... These stories and many more fill the pages of this book to bring you intervals of escape from ordinary life and journeys into other worlds where unexpected universe emerges again and again. May they bring you a good read, a respite from the frenetic pace we sometimes live, and most of all, a path into other ways of seeing.