There are nine stories in this collection, with characters ranging from a Kraken to Amelia Earhart to Texas sisters to college boys to a larger than life woman to a thrill killer to a girl who poses nude for an art class and on. These characters are all, in one way or another, in limbo, this place between happiness and unhappiness. Some of them are fighting so hard to get out, and some of them don't really know that this is where they are, who they are yet. But all of these characters are there on this separate plane from everyone else, and none of them are articulate enough to explain to someone else how to get where they are so that they can be rescued.