The elusive 'perfect start' to one's day...
An eccentric professor's machine that is reputed to accelerate the accomplishing of one's goals...
A kaleidoscope with images of its owner's past lives...
A maddening, labyrinthine search for your king...
A grade school student questions the existence of his peer...
A spa for the recently deceased...
A mother of a family who is determined to retrain herself to dream...
These and other stories are collected here in Steven Muir's mind-bending literary debut.