In this modest gathering of short stories and poetry, you will experience terrors unfolding at a child's birthday party, in the indomitable Death Valley, during the giving of a last will and testament, in a desiccated field of corn, and on a blood-soaked battlefield. Greed, hunger, vengeance, fear, and love drive these stories, and the poetry woven between them offers bleakness and beauty that can only be conceived in the shadows.
