Shard. Final First, #1

Drake Ness comes home with a piece of something bad. Usually people combing the beaches of Maine find pretty shells or sea-smoothed glass, but Drake finds a stone that taunts him with an inscrutable mystery. This shard is not how it should be. The ensuing confusion will make Drake grow up fast- but into what?Matthew Atkinson opens his SHORT STORY collection, Final First, with "Shard, " this weird little shimmering slice of magical realism obsidian that, like its namesake, is not what you think it is.