In this collection, Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers; they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy.

A stretch of highway two lanes wide -- And we were left darkling -- Remembery Day -- Sooner of later everything falls into the sea -- The low hum of her -- Talking with dead people -- The Sewell Home for the temporarily disabled -- In joy, knowing the abyss behind -- No lonely seafarer -- Wind will rove -- Our lady of the open road -- The Narwhal -- And then there were (n-one).