Introduction: Kansa Hawken is raised by Halflings, but she isn't a Halfling herself, and finds herself driven by some Chunish restlessness to move into the big city. She moves to Possum Trot and joins the Possum Trot Metropolitan Mechanized Dragoons. She and her other companions in the city's law enforcement travel far across the Possum Trot area to fight crime and maintain order. The second Industrial Revolution is in full swing and the changes in technology are driving social, legal, and economic changes. Order is a rare luxury and can only exist at the business end of a gun.Now is the Time of Monsters is a series of short stories set in the Last Train to Blazes universe, meant to be an easy introduction to the themes, setting, and tone of the rest of the work....