In genre-bending fiction, Keith Cadieux's collection of dark short stories set against the backdrop of terrifying events and using a narrative "frame/scenario", this collection pushes various boundaries within the literary form and challenges artistic norms. These propulsive, linked stories by one of Manitoba's most exciting emerging short-story writers are gripping and taut, elevating short stories and genre fiction together. AUTHOR: Keith Cadieux's 2010 novella Gaze was listed for a Manitoba Book Award and the ReLit award. His short fiction has most recently appeared in Prairie Fire, Grain, ELQ, and the Exile Book of New Canadian Noir. He lives in Winnipeg.