Itch · Nine Tales of Fantastic Worlds

**Zombies. Pirates. Time Travel. Dragons. And one giant, walking city...**

**Honey to Soothe the Itch:** In a zombie-filled dystopic future, one woman fights against death to bring the world back to life.

**A Man Does Not Sneak Away:** Meet Edward Landon Marcus Strevakoff, Time Hygiene Field Worker extraordinaire... but sometimes the time stream refuses to stay clean and tidy.

**Fey Street**: Just to the left, and maybe a little ahead, we find a magical present not all that different from our own....

**The Taste of Marbles: ** One woman's only comprehension of the passage of time is its taste.

**Diamonds and Bones: **A young space pirate harbors a machine intelligence deep in the orbit of Jupiter....

**Callous**: Military service may have left grad student Brandon with the implants necessary for time travel, but it also left an... itch.

**Cop Killer**: Up, down, left, right--you never know which way you're pointing when you're traveling inside the arm of giant walking city...

Itch also includes two tales from the **Fate - Fire - Shifter - Dragon** series:

**Conpulsio**: During the infamous night Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, two important questions must be answered: Who is bound? Who is compelled?

In **Cinder to Dust**, a mother makes the most agonizing decision of her life...