Here are16 short stories about life, love, toil and death - mainly about death, natural, unnatural, or violent. A dog lover set upon by Rottweilers, a couple from different warring families, a young woman alone in the rain ... But not everything is always as it seems. After all people are so complicated, so adaptable aren't they? Displaying hidden strengths or weaknesses they are capable of things that can surprise or appall or both... - Enjoy!