A compilation of four short stories. Coyote, which was sold to the Strand Magazine, is about a Baltimore plainclothes detective who has twelve hours to save a kidnap victim from a spiritual nemesis called Coyote. Homeward Bound, is a flash fiction piece about two soldiers trying to evade the enemy and a pending air bombardment to make it to safety. Catrina is a personal essay on a death scene investigation performed as a pathology resident in the Army. This also includes a brief excerpt of A Knife in the Fog.