In his debut collection of fantastical short stories, Paul Carey takes us from the trials and tribulations of 18th Century writer Daniel Defoe as he spends an afternoon in the pillory, to the far future, where a sentient giant spider meets her future self and is given the chance of an honorable death. Along the way a woman's soul is trapped in her portrait, a scientist tries a radical new approach to cure cancer and everyone on Earth starts to disappear. Funny, disturbing and often thought provoking fifteen short stories.

A collection of short stories of the weird and the bizarre; an adulterous woman has her soul trapped in her own portrait, a giant sentient spider meets her future selves and is given the chance to choose an honourable death. A scientist who takes a radical approach to curing cancer, a catholic nun gives birth to a clone who will change the world and an Edwardian Nanny is posessed by an alien parasite. 15 short stories taking place across all of time and space, from 18th century London to the far future and the inner mind.