The Ambit

Arn Stanhope had life down cold. A good career, and a carefree life based on mastery of the ins and outs of serial monogamy. Once a cataclysmic event thrusts Arn and a select few others into a different world - perhaps even a different kind of world, from which escape seems impossible, Arn must find a new way of surviving, one that includes people who depend on him.

Then, just as he begins to believe he understands this new world, and his place in it, a darker threat emerges. One that not only endangers everyone he knows, but forces him to question if can ever truly have a place in this new world - in any world - at all.

Michael Canfield writes about monsters, superheroes, couples, bank robbers, babies, astronauts, paranoids, background artists, hobbyists, and other people. He has published mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, or just-plain-odd stories on StrangeHorizons, futurismic, EscapePod, M–Brane SF, in dead-tree magazines including Realms of Fantasy, Talebones, Black Gate, Flytrap and other places. His novelette “Super-Villains” was republished in the prestigious Fantasy: The Year’s Best series, edited by Rich Horton. Born in Las Vegas, he now lives, works, plays, writes, and watches television in Seattle.