A team of time travelers find themselves stranded in the Paleolithic Era, and present themselves to the locals as deities... In a small northwestern college town, a rogue robot takes up petty theft... In an isolated rural diner in 1957 Georgia, a dark wanderer witnesses a confrontation between a brutal cop, two local hoodlums and a frightened black family, and mulls over which of their lives to take... A race against time to stop a terrorist bombing far above the Earth is complicated by the accidental interference of a small child, intent on saving her father's life... Atop the Eiffel Tower, the private apartment begins filling up with people from the future... A Manhattan shopkeeper descends into his cellar after midnight to hear voices above from Colonial times – and overhears the plot to kill George Washington... Late at night, a cell phone app leads its users to a deserted farmhouse in the middle of nowhere...

 

"They arise in the soul… where the confines of the waking world blend with those of the world of dreams," said Edgar Allen Poe. In this collection of tales, somewhere between science fiction and fantasy, Scott Robinson explores Poe's shadows with the logic of Asimov and the poetry of Bradbury, ending each with a disturbing twist...