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.

A pair of troubled school boys navigate the chaos of love and friendship in the early 80's.

During a surreal lockdown where an airborne plague topples bodies to the floor, two estranged twin brothers—one newly freed, the other who stole his name and fate—find themselves entangled in a feverish web of deceit. A cosplaying femme fatale, a seductive voice on the line, and a gang of trickster pookas stir the smoke and shadows of this campy pulp-noir.

Two music-obsessed misfits fumble through crushes, bad decisions, and restless nights in the city of Petropolis. Bobby’s shy, Calvin’s reckless—and growing up might ruin the one thing they’ve got: each other. The first chapter in a four-part, real-time journey through youth, lust, and loyalty.