A man waiting to board a flight at the Buffalo Airport is arrested by Homeland Security for his own murder. Another man takes a phone call meant for someone else and begins to suspect he has accidentally become the target of a world wide conspiracy. A third man wakes in a trauma ward and cannot remember who he is or what has happened to him. And an author going through emotional difficulties suddenly discovers that the story he is currently writing is in some strange way writing him. These are a few of the people we meet in THE SECRET NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME, a collection of short stories which explore in different ways (as science fiction, as mystery, as horror story, as literary experiment) the one inescapable fact of conscious life: our very human need to decipher who we think we are. Because stories are never just stories. They are the way we time travel, the way we visit alternate worlds, the way we connect to other versions of ourselves.