Imagination flies, and sometimes its stories are just too wild to be contained on this earth as we know it. So leave this muddy backwater with Terry Hayman in 5 tales of distant worlds, life forms, and adventures. In "A Time of Leaving", get inside the heads of an alien species fighting to not be "collected.". In "Millipede Lessons", charge into the terrifying alien tunnels on another world to capture a nightmare renegade. In "Upgrades" figure out exactly why a nameless slave is being upgraded, body part by body part. Then figure a way out of a space station hell in "The Girl Who Left" and a species imperative in "The Last Angel." Your time dilation begins...now!