What Remains When the Stars Burn Out

Twelve stories that run from the domestic to the cosmic. A nurse hears a word from a dying patient and cannot get rid of it, and neither can the city she lives in. An office worker is certain she has caught something contagious and cannot get anyone to take her seriously. A company sells instant travel across light years and does not advertise what it costs. Earth is failing, and scientists find another plane of reality that might be a way out.

P.L. McMillan's first collection, working the sinister and the supernatural alongside straightforward body dread, with most of the pieces short enough to read in one sitting and unpleasant enough to stay put afterwards.