There are tales of people not quite human, and things not quite normal, hiding with our own society. Vampires who hunt in the shadows of the big city; or an order of wizards who pass on arcane secrets that outsiders might not even believe in. There are a million stories of fantasy hiding beneath the thin veneer of modern society.
A woman has the power to send messages through time and space, but she doesn’t realise where her last message will go. A former soldier goes looking for a mystical treasure, that would be so much easier to find if he knew what it looked like. A bartender can find whatever you want, for the right price. A new recruit learns to be more careful when handling magical items. These and more stories of what could lie hidden in a world very much like our own.
And in the real world, you might find the story of an author who decided to put all the ideas in his head into words, to write a short story every day for longer than a year. Out of all those stories, these are a baker’s dozen of the best; tales of myth and magic, hiding in plain sight in the modern world.