Teaser Tuesday -- Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

It asks us to:

(1) Grab our current reads.

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.

(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

We're also supposed to share the book title and author so others can find the book themselves.

Here's my teaser for today from Muse and Reverie, by Charles de Lint (one of my top five favorite authors of all time):

One moment there's this beautiful dark-haired woman standing there, then she vanishes and there's only the heap of her clothes left lying on the carpet. I'm still staring slack-jawed when the clothing moves and a sleek black cat wriggles out from under the overalls and darts into the room where Luisa said her cat was.

Muse and Reverie is a collection of short stories that are all set in (or related to) the made-up Newford town where Charles has set many of his books. Although each story is a stand-alone, they also let people who are familiar with his other books get a quick peek at what other favorite characters (like Jilly Coppercorn) are up to.