Piles of Steaming Words

Two friends face imminent nuclear destruction…
…a cowboy finds his particular brand of magical talent…
…a scientist's quest for figurative immortality takes a gruesome and all-too-real turn…
…machines learn more about the human condition than their programmers planned…
…and two fish realize their dreams through an aquarium owner's hand-made puppet, and his autistic daughter.
These five short stories pile steaming words onto the tragic, the profane, and the profound.