"They Are Here Now" delivers more than 40 magnificent short tales: A door-to-door salesman gets more than he bargained for, a surfer meets his fate at dawn, motorcycle riding conjoined twins take an adventure, a naïve teenager joins the French Foreign Legion, a couple of cowboys shoot their way out of a saloon, a psychotic hitch hiker is on the run, the devil befriends a young man, honeymooners bicker at the Vatican, a vicious poodle terrorizes travelers at a rest stop, and a hallucinating fiction writer goes mad. J.S. Lender lives in Southern California, and this is his first book.