A collection of eight short dark fantasy stories, set in various locations around the world, on themes of revenge, fate, and greed. Justice is meted out, sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly, sometimes by people and sometimes by nature.

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Robert John Schwarzmann was born in Toronto, and worked as a reporter, translator, and ESL teacher. He lived and worked in Mexico, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Los Angeles, before moving to the North End of Dartmouth Nova Scotia, popularly known as the Dark Side. His short story The Poet was made into a feature film directed by Michael Rothecker. It was invited to the Montreal International Film Festival in 2007. Robert John Schwarzmann died in 2022.

"Schwarzmann's surrealist alternate realities show us how precarious any reality can be." Chris Benjamin, Atlantic Books Today.

"These stories have the off-kilter quirkiness of a Phillip K. Dick novel." Micheal Posner, former Globe and Mail Arts reporter.

"These yarns leave an impact on your psyche." Mark Palmero, film critic and screenwriter.