"Twenty-two stories of loss and redemption, death and fate, memory and forgiveness. Between these covers God and Satan chat on a city bus, the specter in a haunted well demands revenge, death reluctantly claims a troubled soul, a young girl from Darfur makes a fateful journey, a serial decapitator stalks a small town, Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe get mixed up with the three little pigs, and much more."--Publisher description