Eight short fiction scenarios within one longer piece that explores the decline of people, things, and relationships through one object, a pair of binoculars.<br />
"...Paw Paw's got a rabbit and three legs on us and he's been holding the thing for two months. My brother Glen was hot on his weekly phone call to the city. You gotta get out here and take it back, man..."
“...My oldest friends may remember me asking them for a month or so during my mid-early twenties for reasons they wanted to have children. Those of them who eventually wanted to have them. Hetero and homosexual and whatever else, alike, I asked them. I wanted to hear an answer that sounded unselfish to me, although I was sure none like that would come...”
The Skeleton News presents "A Dark Vision of the Future." Features on: Chicago's first megachurch, Willow Creek, at the Auditorium Theater and defining evangelicalism; nutrition and public health issues including types of fats and perspectives and conspiracy theories on AIDS/HIV; ubiquitous computing, GPS, and RFID and their implications in surveillance, health, and everyday living; survivalism and species integration; the solitude of mathematician Dr. Grigory Perelman; being transgendered or androgynous in Chicago; book reviews; the loss of identity in American cities; unessential albums; and Ulysses S. Grant.<br />