In this collection of short stories, Joshua Bartolome explores the conflicted relationships betweenfathers and sons - and the horrifying things they do to, and for, each other.During an emergency, a desperate man and his pregnant wife wander into a town that doesn'texist. An actor for a children's show undergoes a monstrous transformation. While searching forvictims, a tourist crosses paths with a more bloodthirsty predator. A colleague of VictorFrankenstein creates his own metallic golem, unleashing a soulless abomination. A hacker triesto stop a rogue AI from wreaking havoc. An American platoon wanders into a forest and neverreturns. And in the final story, a bio-mechanical spaceship gives birth to her godspawn child,ushering in the advent of an anti-human age.