Jonathan Carroll. The Loud Table. (Tor.com November 2016)
Sweet little story from Carroll, that could be straight from the 1950s, except for the closing references to dementia, the singularity and AIs.
Jonathan Carroll. East of Furious. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012)
Short alchaemic fantasy/horror featuring a divorce lawyer and a client with more than a touch of the Midas.