"We both stare at the body crumpled on the floor, all unnatural angles and leaked fluids."

A criminal's cleanup crew tackle all the messy jobs, while a university lecturer guides us through the quirks of other planets and a farmer still fights the war. This 58 story collection brings together evocative landscape portraits, observations and stories of travel, sport and the bush mingled with homelessness, grief and domestic violence with a rich variety of characters.

All served up in bite-sized portions.