17 mind-twisty short stories about edgy characters dealing with their bugaboos. Forget the supernatural shivers and fantasy frights, these "everyday" horrors, whether psychological or sexual or religious or extraterrestrial, will rock your sense of what's right with the world.

Want to meet:

· A stripper with a dream ? or is she dreaming?

· A contortionist obsessed with a mystery online hookup?

· A philosophical Russian hitman looking to save his soul?

· A guy who can't get far enough away from his kind of women?

· A diabolical old priest with a practical take on the Golden Rule?

· A public relations trainee who literally gets down and dirty with corporate greed?

· A pious Edwardian lady hell bent on fixing things with her wayward lover?

· A businesswoman who learns about compassion the hard way?

· An atheist TV clown and the kid who shows him God's wrath?

· An extragalactic fertilization specialist who's knows his Bible?

· An ethics student tempted by God to the breaking point?

· A smooth-talking colonel who makes war sound easy?

· A young married couple with an unspeakable secret?

· A boy with the worst father figure ever?