Impossibilia. Short Story Collections, #1

Aurora Award Finalist Doug's first collection contains three novelettes, including an award winner and an award finalist. Stories of wonder with characters that you won't forget. Characters who, like any of us, have things they hide inside-secrets, fears, aspects of themselves they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little.different. A painter who talks to Vincent van Gogh A shapeshifter hunting one of his own The secret to being the luckiest man alive  Welcome to Impossibilia! ~~ "Rarely have I seen such an apt title to any book! Douglas Smith has given us three amazing stories that are so unusual and beautiful that no other name than Impossibilia could possibly describe this collection.
Each tale was rapture and ecstasy, magical and mysterious, perfect and implausible. In short, I loved them all from the first word to the last. ... I don't know what else to say without spoiling things for you so I won't say anything else, except READ THIS BOOK!!!" - Mass Movement Magazine "The three stories collected in 'Impossibilia' are very different, covering almost the entire range of speculative genres.
The writing is superb. Douglas Smith is an artisan and his stories beautifully crafted. ... In my search for the perfect short story, the three in this volume certainly qualify." -SF Crowsnest Book Reviews "Both thematically and stylistically, these stories sometimes recall the work of better known authors, including Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, and Ray Bradbury. But Smith puts such a personal stamp on his stories, and invests them with such depth of feeling, that they transcend the dangers of .
imitation and emerge as wholly original.