Short stories present a group of Midwesterners coping with the difference between reality and delusion, the difficulty of breaking out of existing molds and realizing one's own needs, and the problems of a changing world.
After fifty years of plotting, seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn prepares to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs, who gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study.
