Are You There & Other Stories

This dynamic collection of 27 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Life after death, digital personalities, alien invasion, and Lovecraftian horror. It includes “Life on the Preservation,” the basis for Skillingstead’s Philip K. Dick nominated novel of the same name. In the title story, a parapolice detective in hot pursuit of a serial killer receives help from a responsive memory module of the killer’s mother, but soon discovers that he might be falling in love with the module. Edgy and surreal, each tale reflects on familiar, emotional issues and complex relationships from new and imaginative angles.

Cover Art by John Picacio

Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, July 2014

Distributed by Fairwood Press
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Printed in the United States of America

eISBN: 978-1-62579-322-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-933846-45-3

Copyright 2009 by Jack Skillingstead

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

Fairwood Press
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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