Unreal is the first in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings.

[1][2] A boy called Brian has a speech impediment that forces him to say "Without a shirt" each time he finishes a sentence.

When he is forced to move to a new house in the center of a cemetery because his dog is repeatedly digging, he eventually finds some bones that may be linked to his speech impediment.

A conniving salesman named Giffen sells a glue that will stick to anything, but stops working after four hours.

After getting many innocent townspeople to buy it, he leaves town in his truck before they can track him down for cheating them, then meets a man who has invented a box that can make people fly into the sky.

But when he takes a break during a cross-country race (he is first by a wide margin), those underpants start to shrink, and the bully eventually comes to steal the rest of his clothes.

He ends up going home in the nude, causing him to be grounded, but he eventually enters a mouse race in which the winner gets 50 dollars.