Newt Run is a town that shouldn't exist, a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. It's a town at the center of a broken universe, and broken universes have the bad tendency to fall apart.Newt Run is also a novel, but the world of Newt Run was much too large to fit inside a single book. These short stories, or 'modules', extend this world, probing into its deepest, smallest secrets.In 'Dead Birds', a homeless man takes it upon himself to find out why so many pigeons are turning up without their heads.