In this new collection by World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, the secret lives of librarians, doctors, lawyers, university students, bank tellers, sex shop clerks and dozens of others are revealed for the first time. Ordered by profession, these short-short stories range from the hilarious to the somber, the absurd to the revelatory. Using real people as the springboard, VanderMeer has created a rich blend of the factual and the imaginary in which everyone gets the secret life they deserve. A luminous little book meant for dipping into one secret life at a time.

Ann VanderMeer is the publisher of Buzzcity Press and the fiction editor for “Weird Tales,” Jeff VanderMeer is the founder and editor for Ministry of Whimsy Press. He is the author of “City of Saints and Madmen, Secret Life, Shriek,” and “Veniss Underground,”“ ”He is the editor of the Leviathan series and "The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases," Coeditors of the Best American Fantasy series, they both live in Tallahassee, Florida.