Tim Pratt's stories have been published in Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other places. His first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (Bantam Spectra), appeared in 2005, and his collection, Hart & Boot & Other Stories, was published in 2006 from Nightshade Books. Tim co-edits a little literary 'zine called Flytrap with his wife, Heather Shaw. They live in Oakland, California. In his new story for Asimov's, he takes a fresh look at that mysterious little shop we'd all like to find once again, and offers us a tantalizing glimpse of some ... Impossible Dreams. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||