Strange Coins and Flooded Cities

Hi there. My name is Will Hindmarch, and I teach at the Shared Worlds creative-writing camp founded by Jeff VanderMeer and Jeremy Jones. For the second and final week of the camp, I'm here at Wofford College being the sub-Jeff in Jeff's considerable psychic and professorial wake. I am a pale substitute—I know Jeff VanderMeer and I am no Jeff VanderMeer—but I'm scrappy and eager to please. So I'm pacing myself and preparing to withstand the merciless heat and weather the incredible energy...