Funny, strange, and dark. Three stories about the lengths we go to for the people we love - and the moment devotion turns into the thing that undoes us. On a fortified hill at the end of the world, an old survivalist lives by a single rule: the gate stays shut. Then a young woman makes camp at the foot of it, and waits. In a city gone dark, the crowds have begun to smile in unison, and a father leads his son toward a rumored light - and a choice about what is real. High in the frozen silver country of Colorado, a snowbound supper party runs out of food, and its guests discover just how far good manners will carry them. Quiet, unsettling, and stranger than they let on - three stories about what we hold onto when the world ends, and what, against all sense, still grows.