by Emily R. Schiller (Author)
A female dictator in a dystopian society. A reclusive animal hoarder preparing for the apocalypse. An anthropologist encountering supernatural events in the arctic tundra. A wounded Iraq veteran. A rock star betrayed by everyone he loved. A mother and daughter's incestuous ménage à troi in a slumbering sea side town. The return of Jesus as a frog. A dominatrix with a broken heart. A robot nurse modeled after her patient's deceased wife. A man's quest for a mythical plant of psychic powers. A unicorn nursed by a deformed outcast. These are just a couple of the dozens of short stories in this collection. Revised, rebound and refined from an initial print of 50 stories the author completed by age 19. The stories within are delightfully brutal, pensive but playful, and have no interest in keeping you comfortable.