In this collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations inform the staggering and urgent question of how to build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be 'fixable'.

The marks of Aegis -- Here you are, near me -- Self care -- The nothing spots where nobody wants to stay -- The heavy things -- The seed and the stone -- We did not know we were giants -- The android that designed itself -- As tender feet of Cretan girls danced once around an atlar of love -- Estranged children of storybook houses -- My noise will keep the record -- Wake word -- Everyone on the Moon is essential personnel -- First contact, communion -- I am a beautiful bug! -- The thing is us we fear just wants our love.