Contemporary

Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch, but Isserley is only interested in whether they have families.

When an unemployed former math major wakes up one day, he wonders if he’s somehow ended up on the red planet. His only leads are cryptic instructions beamed to a portable device. Has the game begun?

Julius lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead – and not by accident.

Carl is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The cause; an old African culling song.

After her father’s failed suicide attempt, Jane is assigned to foster parents who are deeply involved in the Second Day Believers cult.

The story of the Binewskis, a carny family who set out to breed their own circus of human oddities.

Following the path of an insane criminal, the narrator is allowed to glimpse into a world of depravity, anger and suffering.

The story of Nina, a young girl who uses prostitution as a means to justify her lust.