Narrator Luke Cieslinski doesn't have the answers, and he can't stop searching for them. When he sees his opportunity to leave everything behind---his friends, his job, his family---he does, escaping his hometown and striking out to find something more. But there's a problem: "Dodge County," his friend once said, "is like a black hole. It doesn't let you leave, not without a fight." Contains the following published stories: Cherries and Blueberries (Sphere Literary Journal, 2009)