title: The New York Stories: Three Volumes in One Collection
author: Ben Tanzer
description: Ben Tanzer is the author of the books 99 Problems, My Father's House, You Can Make Him Like You, Orphans, which won the 24th Annual Midwest Book Award in Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal and a Bronze medal in the Science Fiction category at the 2015 IPPY Awards, and Lost in Space, which received an Honorable Mention in the Chicago Writers Association 2014 Book Awards Traditional Non-Fiction category, among others. He has also contributed to Punk Planet, Clamor, and Men's Health, serves as Senior Director, Acquisitions for Curbside Splendor, and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life.
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  ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  Title Page
  Copyright Page
  Dedication
  
  ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
   
  Saturn’s Return to New York
  
  Copyright © 2003 by Sara Gran
   
  All rights reserved.
   
  Published by 
  Soho Press, Inc. 
  853 Broadway 
  New York, NY 10003
   
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gran, Sara.
  Come closer : a novel / Sara Gran.
  p. cm.
  ISBN 1-56947-328-5 (alk. paper)
  1. Women—Fiction. 2. Demoniac possession—
  Fiction. I. Title.
  PS3607.R42C66 2003
  813’.6—dc21 2002044655
   
  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
  
  For Warren and Suzanne Gran. Thank you for everything.
  
   
  IN JANUARY I HAD A proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new
  project. We were renovating a clothing store in a strip mall outside the city.
  Nothing tremendous. I finished the proposal on a Friday morning and
  dropped it on his desk with a cheerful little note—“Let me know what you
  think! ”—while he was in a meeting with a new client in the conference
  room.
  Later that morning Leon threw open his office door with a bang.
  