Some people consider me to be a mystic, but that’s far from the truth. I’ve been accused of witchcraft by a certain fundamentalist neighbour of mine, and while sorcery is listed on my resume, I’m not in the habit of luring young children to my condo only to bake them in an enchanted oven. I fell into this job quite by accident when I discovered that I possessed the ability to see the preternatural world. There are a handful of people with similar abilities, and part of my job is to locate them since Government Services and Infrastructure Canada likes to keep track of these things. Don’t ask me why.

What is the preternatural world?

It’s part myth and part reality where magic and turmoil fly in the face of the laws of physics and pure science that we apply to the near world, that’s where we live. The preternatural world made up in large part of beings possessing qualities that would take scholars a lifetime to wrap their collective heads around, assuming they’re open to what can only be described as, well, unnatural. It exists within our world, but it’s a place that is rarely seen by near world residents because we’re too busy sitting in the drive thru at Tim Horton’s or grinding through gridlock on the Deerfoot Trail to notice.