This is a very short short story collection and unfortunately a quite bad one. Some stories seem autobiographical, whereas others just don't pay off due to their shortness and there's a random anti-abortion story at the half point that I found absolutely horrible. I expected some unpolished stories and not the tightest editing, but there was unfortunately no connecting throughline in this magazine nor interesting storytelling anywhere. It jumped from stories of heartbreak to christian preaching to an underdeveloped fantasy apocalypse concept. I know this is a bunch of years old and I've read other short stories by Sumiko Saulson written since then, so fortunately I know that authors work has improved and other authors work might have too, but I did not enjoy this one at all.