More of Walter Mosley's crazy speculative fiction. These stories are good examples of what I think of as Mosley's "world-changing-hero" template: He introduces us to some normal seeming person, then some weird stuff happens to them, they discover a power (and a friend or friends) and then they change the entire world. It's a little predictable, it's a fun medium for Mosley's writing style & ideas. In this way, these stories are similar to Futureland (which I liked better), and Inside a Silver Box (which I didn't like as much). The man in my basement follows the formula more loosely, & I'm only mentioning it because it's my favorite Mosley novel I've read so far.