n this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre. Amongst Ford's citizens are: -Blake ("The Fifty"), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill -Candy Patrice ("Cloyed"), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan...