Beschrijving

A boy learns that compassion can hurt. A young man starting his career is ambushed by the memory of a crime from his past. A soldier back from Afghanistan is haunted by what he didn’t do. A man on a quest to remake himself arrives at the brink of murder. A psychologist’s life is changed by a man claiming to be from another planet. Eight stories–sorrowful, satiric, surreal–from the heart of the empire.