In a distant future, Stan works a dead-end job, handcuffed to his desk and forbidden to look out the window. His life feels meaningless until he meets Meredith, a mysterious coworker who holds secrets about this world and the next. Secrets that might finally give his life purpose… or tear it apart.

Thus begins Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, a collection of eight mind-bending tales of madness and transformation. In "Aphelion," a man receives cryptic messages through his laptop—messages that awaken a genius inside him and make time vanish. In "Parting Sorrows," an old man has a fling with a seductive young woman he meets online, but something about her isn't quite right. In "Flaming Butterfly," a young man is abducted and thrust into a brutal, unfamiliar world, where he becomes a slave to forces beyond his comprehension.

In Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, Grant Palmquist explores the fractured edges of the human mind, where reality bends, sanity slips, and nothing is what it seems. These surreal, unsettling tales will leave a mark on you that lingers long after the final page.