Would you open the door on a dark and stormy night if it meant the possibility of regaining lost love? A disturbed man has a conversation with a dark visitor one lonely night.

In a world once on the brink of civilisation collapse when the secret of immortality was discovered — and now where population control is strictly enforced — a distraught father must decide which of his newborns he will let live.

A body, hanging from a lamppost. But nobody seems to care. Nobody, except Ed Loyce who is about to have a very, very bad day.