The distance between violent conflagration and utter desolation is much shorter than you think.

A facility generates power by obliterating aesthetic beauty from parallel universes; a "pink brick" defies the analytical capacity of a team researching an alien culture; a world struggles to cope with the ecological impact of its moon's descending orbit; a young man with relationship problems is tormented by his own reflection; a deadly poisonous organism masquerades as an art show piece.

In 2014, Buscemi began experimenting with short form prose, eventually producing two collections, Lore & Logos and Transmutations of Fire and Void. This collection contains the best of those works, organized thematically, alongside new commentary from the author.