A scholar’s mentor reveals his secret life’s work in a remote location...

A vagrant and a rich man reminisce about their days in prison...

Two disturbed brothers revisit their broken childhood with a psychologist...

The details of a morbid, multimillion-dollar deal are laid out...

Three young women leave a wild party and wake up in a basement...

A late-night phone call forces a man to the desert to complete an agreement...

Two friends find a village in the hills that no one ever leaves...

Desperate people seek miracles at an abandoned motel...

Things are often more than they seem in this first volume of a short story collection by veteran writer Lynn Harrod.