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Adventurous, magical, and often dark, the stories that comprise Feral Boy Meets Girl are about outsiders in their own communities, homes, and even intimate relationships. Feral Boy Meets Girl blends literary fiction with elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to tell stories of outsiders within their communities, their homes, and even their intimate relationships. In "The Death And Life Of Bob," a collective of textbook sales reps watches in amazement as their marginalized coworker returns from the dead with a new zest for life—but one sees something far darker in his new beginning. In the title story, "Feral Boy Meets Girl," a young teenager, raised in the wild by a cougar until his adoption by human parents, is on the cusp of full integration into society, but finds that "civilization" is nothing of the sort. In "Static," an experimental wormhole leads to a father receiving cell phone calls from his son twenty...