Четыре истории: Гарфунгфло

Come Distant from High Skies like an Old Time Airship is a short story featuring a handful of characters and their plot lines. It centers around Elisa, a college age student who's just moved in with her aunt in her rural house in Lane County. After an unfortunate and unjust incident she's cut off from her aunt and has to fend for herself and along the way she meets a cast of characters. Ten Years is a two part short story centering around Diane, who at the beginning of the story intends to inspire her old friend to come with her to New York to try to make it big as artists once again. Diane's friend does not want to come, but her son does. Diane and Norm embark on an adventure together, one in which a serial killer is murdered and new lives are made. The Monster Donovan is a story about a mother named Kimber who loses her son. The loss brings the parents to a state of utter despair and they both attempt the unthinkable, though Kimber doesn't quite succeed and is left disfigured. Kimber recovers and remarries to a man named Kyle, who's a plastic surgeon himself. Eventually a private detective and monsters and aliens impose themselves on Kimber's story.In The Dog Gustav's son Teddy is kidnapped. The event leads to a mobster extorting Gustav, forcing him to sell cocaine and later to kill a number of individuals for him. When Gustav finds himself in jail for conspiracy to commit murder he meets a mother and son who are in jail for allegedly poisoning someone. Gustav falls asleep and wakes up to find himself somewhere else.