This is a collection of short stories. In "Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream" a man dreams about finding the dead body of a young woman who had been raped and murdered. The detectives on the case become convinced he committed the crime and hammer him with upsetting questions and ruminate on how he might have assaulted her. Later in the story, a police officer describes finding the real killer when he tried to assault and murder another young woman; she escaped him when he tried to assault her but was unharmed. In "On Slide Inn Road", a boy finds the body of a woman killed by two nearby men. The men attempt to kidnap the boy's mother and little sister but do not succeed. It is not clear what the men would have done with the mother and sister other than kill them, but readers may find this uncomfortable.