The book contains 18 short stories that go from a story of a man with strange hungers, to someone trapped in hell, two men facing the end of the world, a book that opens doors and of the famous Simcoe Sally. Some stories will make you laugh, others will make you keep the lights on when you go to bed.
Excerpt
Close your eyes and listen to the sounds of the bugs singing their songs, the music of the wind blowing through the canopy of trees a few yards away and try to forget where you are. Look up at the blue skies, the heavens that Father Saunders once told you about, where God watches us all and sees the good and the bad we do. Stare skyward and hope to see God so that you don’t feel the urge to look down and see your friend laying at your feet, his head open and his grey matter pooled in the dirt around you. Don’t look and see his one remaining eye staring dull and dead right at you, as though asking why you are alive when he is clearly not. It’s bad enough you can smell him, the odor of his cells breaking down, trying so hard to liquefy and become one with the earth he is laying on, you don’t need to see him like that, though I’m sure the image is already burnt into your memory. Just grip your weapon and listen to the sounds around you as you look up above and pray that things will turn out better for you than they did for poor old George.
BLIND!
Ross Miller doesn’t have anything to live for anymore. An RPG attack in Afghanistan left him blind and he thought helpless.
He tried going home but that didn’t work out. Luke and Amber Owens who were both wounded in the same
