Here are fifteen remarkable tales, from the spine-tingling account of an intergalactic poacher's rite of passage to an erotic and ultimately uplifting modern fable of inner scars and otherworldly transformation, including the classic novella The Hemingway Hoax. These are stories that sing with a unique and haunting voice--stories of war's monsters, of brutal art and lost stars, and a brief, miraculous moment called childhood, when a young girl can...