In a distant future, Stan works at a dead-end job, handcuffed to his desk, forbidden to look out the window. His life seems hopeless till he meets Meredith, a coworker who harbors secrets about this world and the next, secrets that could make his life worth living . . . Thus begins Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, eight mind-bending tales of madness. In "Aphelion," we meet a man who receives strange messages through his laptop, messages that turn him into a creative genius and make time disappear; in "Parting Sorrows," an old man has a fling with a sexy young girl he meets online, but there's something strange about her; in "Flaming Butterfly," a young man is abducted and forced into another world, where he becomes a slave. In Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, Grant Palmquist explores that elusive part of the mind where reality and insanity meet. These surreal, unsettling tales will leave their mark on you-permanently.