Nuts, Bolts, and Monster Worship

A child discovers a deity in Godzilla. After being involvedin a horrific family tragedy, a teenage girl avoids suicide by taking longwalks with her little brother. A young Marine goes to war with his identity. Ateacher with bouts of depression suspects cheating from a talented adolescentwhose hormones cripple his ability to prove his innocence. A sixteen year oldgoes on an acid trip and unknowingly sets a farmers field on fire thatthreatens a neighbors home on the other side.

Like a student taking a pop quiz on a subject he neverreceived a handout for, these characters and others in the six stories thatmake up this book, find themselves faking the answers to a life they cameunprepared for.