A young man who owns a bookshop on the outskirts of a senior citizen community must fight for his life and livelihood when his elderly customers decide to riot – and on the day he meets the woman of his dreams. “Bookshop” is the flagship novella accompanying 11 other short and micro tales of terror. Also prowling within: a predator cruises the streets of a college town, looking for companionship and sustenance; a couple struggling to connect is introduced to cutting-edge technology that has the promise of bringing them closer than ever if it doesn’t ruin them first; a deadly outbreak ravages a quarantined city, witness life behind the walls; an aging teacher deals with the loss of her husband in the only way she knows how; a bitter and spiteful man gets more than expected when he recruits a stranger to harass an ex-lover. These tales and more populate the pages of this collection – tales of isolation, disease, survival, and destruction.