Here's an excerpt from the anthology Other Worlds Than These , a short story entitled Impossible Dreams , by Tim Pratt. It's really quite awesome. (Visit the website here for more info about the anthology. All credit goes to Wired for sharing this.) ‘Impossible Dreams’ by Tim Pratt Pete was walking home from the revival movie house, where he’d caught an evening showing of To Have and Have Not , when he first saw the video store. He stopped on the sidewalk, head cocked, frowning at the narrow store squeezed between a kitschy gift shop and a bakery. He stepped toward the door, peered inside, and saw old movie posters on the walls, racks of DVDs and VHS tapes, and a big screen TV against one wall. The lettering on the door read “Impossible Dreams Video,” and the smudges on the glass suggested it had been in business for a while. Except it hadn’t been. Pete knew every video store in the county, from the big chains to the tiny place staffed by film stude...