A Slice of the Dark

And Other Stories

If you got a mysterious box that said, Do Not Open, would you open it? If your fingers revolted and wanted a different job, would you agree? If you came from a race of giants, or thought about becoming Death’s lover, or couldn’t get rid of a lover no matter how hard you tried, what would you do?

These stories contain unusual problems, like finding your world growing dark after eating a piece of cake—and maybe wanting more cake. It’s not hard to find yourself one step outside the normal, as these characters do. The trick is to make it work.

Cover image © Artemis Swenson
Cover and book design by Patrick Swenson

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 Fairwood Press Edition: November 2022

Distributed by Fairwood Press
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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-933846-22-4

Fairwood Press
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Bonney Lake, WA 98391
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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