<p>In this story, based on the Hendrix song, a mystical left hander takes the main character on a frightening journey to the other side.&nbsp;</p>

12. Sonya's Insatiable Hunger

With wildly imagined characters and jarringly unexpected circumstances, these stories exist in a kind of literary twilight zone. Yet they go beyond merely the creepy and strange, the odd and sometimes absurd, at times exhibiting a keen authorial understanding of human nature and a Kakfaesque pathos for the human condition.