Daniel Shaffer is a broken man who was addicted to love and passion. His new passion is to brutally murder his old lover. Only a very old painting stands in his way and Daniel has a mental match to give a motive into murdering another. Can Daniel afford to live with himself if he chooses to kill her? Could he justify killing her? Would murdering someone really help him move on? Daniel must relate his own life to the painting and realize why Saturn devoured his so.

"He was the tip of the reaper. The one touch that could end me, pecked to death under a storm of crows." A man is haunted by nightmares of a reaper coming to kill him. He ventures off into the wild to face Death. A flock of crows follow him. One crow is patiently waiting to finish off the man. It's a tale of coming to terms with life and understanding your place in the world in order to be happy. Dedicated to my father.

Jake is a washed up insult comic. After a failed career he ends up homeless and on the streets in the dark corner of Paradise Ends, begging for change on the street. He is visited by a little girl. Jake has a special gift of seeing into a person's future with just a faint touch. After shaking the little girl's hand, he sees a flash of her death. Murdered. Now Jake believes he can prevent her death long before it happens. How far will Jake go to stop the killer? Find out in this short story...

An artist had a secret lover. She is now dead and a few years later he sits in a strange chair by her grave. A man appears willing to make him the offer of a lifetime. It could change his life forever, but comes with a high price.

A writer is looking for true horrors. In the past he was butchered by critics and now he is trying to win them over. After a one night stand he becomes haunted by dreams of his previous stories and has been infected by a painful bug. Desperate to make the pain go away he makes a deal with a man who is beyond anyone he has ever met. The only way out alive is through death.