Funny how fantasy and science fiction often can't be placed in any particular moment, past or future. Often it seems to occur...now. Just now. You're a blind girl sharing your home with someone or something after a global catastrophe of unknown dimension. An Ivy League physics professor who enjoys morning coffee with his adored wife, as long as he wants. A salesman on a mind-bending bender in Buffalo. A widower who gives in to desperate loneliness by leasing a new bride. Keith Croes finds the everyday magic in every now. Welcome to Fantasy Crow II, the second in his trilogy of fantasy/science fiction anthologies. Welcome to the present.