Deadline (Short Story Collections)

In the first of these five intense short stories, "The Maransky Nature Blot Test," the character (or maybe the reader) endures a new kind of ink blot test.

In "The Curious Events Surrounding Thomas Pilsen," a man more than absorbed by his fantasies takes a cab to the airport. Along the way he becomes a mobster, and after he arrives he remembers an alien invasion, discovers a spaceport, and finds himself on the way to a mine on an alien planet.

In "Spider," Dorothy is brought into the hospital...