Kit Reed draws from life - with a difference. This new collection brings together thirty-four of her strong, original stories, from early classics like "The Wait" and "Winter" to six never-before-collected short stories, including "The Legend of Troop 13" and "Wherein We Enter the Museum". An early favorite, "Automatic Tiger", is the first in a series of Reed's stories about animals. There's a monkey who grinds out bestsellers with the help of a "creative writing" app. Her uncanny black dog can enter a crowded room and sit down at the feet of the next man to die. Her characters confront war in various arenas: mother/daughter battles, the war of the sexes, the struggles of men scarred by war. Kit Reed's self-described "transgenred" fiction is confirmation of what The Financial Times calls an "extraordinary talent". The range and complexity of her work speaks for itself in The Story Until Now.

Contents:
- Introduction (2013) by Gary K. Wolfe
- Denny (2009)
- The Attack of the Giant Baby (1975)
- What Wolves Know (2007)
- Automatic Tiger (1964)
- Wherein We Enter the Museum (2013)
- High Rise High (2004)
- Piggy (1961)
- Song of the Black Dog (2005)
- Weston Walks (2011)
- How It Works (2013)
- Precautions (2000)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1992)
- Family Bed (2004)
- The Singing Marine (1995)
- In the Squalus (1972)
- Perpetua (2004)
- Pilots of the Purple Twilight (1981)
- Sisohpromatem (1967)
- On the Penal Colony (1998)
- The Food Farm (1967)
- In Behalf of the Product (1973)
- Songs of War (1974)
- Winter (1969)
- The Weremother (1979)
- Voyager (1996)
- Old Soldiers (2001)
- Incursions (2003)
- The Bride of Bigfoot (1984)
- The Zombie Prince (2004)
- Grand Opening (2005)
- Special (2009)
- Monkey Do (2010)
- The Outside Event (2011)
- The Legend of Troop 13 (2013)
- The Wait (1958)