The Ones That Got Away

These thir­teen sto­ries are our own lives, inside out. A boy’s sum­mer romance doesn’t end in that good kind of heart­break, but in blood. A girl on a fish­ing trip makes a friend in the woods who’s exactly what she needs, except then that friend fol­lows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby mon­i­tor that shouldn’t be pos­si­ble, but now he can’t stop lis­ten­ing. A woman finds out that the ship­wreck wasn’t the dis­as­ter, but who she’s ship­wrecked with. A big brother learns just what he will, and won’t, trade for one night of sleep. From prison guards mak­ing unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West dol­ing out jus­tice, these sto­ries carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears and cer­tain­ties, and there’s no anes­thetic. Turn the light on if you want, but that just makes for more shad­ows.