Speculative Encounters: New Stories From the Slipstream Is a lineman really transported to an alternate reality after a lightning strike or is he hallucinating? When vampires steal a man's wife, he follows to seek revenge with the assistance of a female vampire who offers him eternity. Driving on a lonely country road at night, a man in a pickup sees a woman's bloody arm reach out from the shoulder of the two-lane blacktop road. In the aftermath of a comet's disintegration in Earth's atmosphere, survivors must adapt - and was that an actual comet that exploded? These 17 stories await, dark and suspenseful encounters within the otherly realm of the slipstream.