The Foreman

The Jack Smith spent twenty-odd years swinging hammers, driving trucks and arguing with vending machines before he figured out the truth: the world's running on a hidden game system, and most of us never got the tutorial.

Now he writes about the guys who do — plumbers, repo men and ironworkers who stumble into magic, monsters and more romantic complications than any man should have to manage.

He lives somewhere with too many power tools, one patient wife and a dog that's definitely a familiar.