Stories from the edge of reality This short story collection of mysteries and riddles starts with a Wizard Glue that does not stick to skin. But its inventor ends uplike a martyr – in a city of outsiders and underdogs. The following story shows how a drug against a mental disease turns into a substance that leads to transfer of pain. Pain from one person to another. Then a man appears who is somehow forced to cut his ear. Musicians disappear in a picture. A brain disorder leads to the creation of melodies. Enventually, the question why Rumpelstilzchen needs children is solved. The collection ends with a creature designed for killing.