The video store where the VHS cases keep the monsters at bay. The late-night craving for a hot dog that unravels into a tale of gunplay, espionage, and microfiche. The discovery that the only thing capable of saving us from robot annihilation is poor penmanship. Those are just a few of the stories locked safe within this volume. Finished almost soon as they start, each tale is a brief pitstop in the surprising, the bizarre, and the absurd - often all at the same time.