The follow-up to "By the Wayside". Eleven years later, Jim’s in over his head, Jane’s a fetish worker, Dio’s homeless with brain trauma, and Mars and Portia chase a lead that might connect them all. A screwball follow-up about love, survival, and the strange poetry of growing older.

William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.

Meredith Pottsworth, artist of the comic strip Gabby, is at the end of her creative rope. While trying to find inspiration in her work, she witnesses a murder in her own backyard.

In a desolate town in Northern Wisconsin, a stubborn young woman and her naïve boyfriend face off against a pair of amateur burglars.

When terminally ill Joanna makes the difficult decision to pursue end-of-life options through the Death with Dignity Act, the systems set up to make her death peaceful and dignified yield the opposite.

When Wendy discovers her roommate has been scamming her, she teams up with a strip club's colorful, unlikely allies for a thrilling and bold reverse-con a la The Sting. It does not go well.