I have to be out of keyboard range tonight, so I'm typing this not knowing whether you'll be celebrating in here or watching, very nervously, as the Los Angeles Dodgers play the San Francisco Giants. Which makes the body of this thread a little less relevant to your immediate interests than usual.

If the Cardinals and the Dodgers somehow fail to resolve the Wild Card today—don't ask me how, I'm just planning for contingencies, here—allow me to suggest as an alternative topic of discussion either short story collections written since 1990 I should recommend to my creative writing students or the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space."