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Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places.

Werewolves don’t have a how-to manual—nor do men embarking on a new life together.

Skinny, quiet hipster Dylan Warner was the kind of guy other men barely glanced at until an evening’s indiscretion with a handsome stranger turned him into a werewolf.

In the mid-1950s, Jack Dayton flees his working-class prospects in Omaha and heads to Hollywood, convinced he’ll be the next James Dean.

Aside from a sympathetic parole officer, Aiden Finn is alone in the world. He knows this is his last chance—after a lifetime in and out of prison, one more mistake will land him there to stay.

Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer.

Fiscal analyst Mike Carlson is good with spreadsheets and baseball stats. He doesn’t believe in fate, true love or fantasy. But then a fertility goddess whisks him away to another world.

Jeff Dawkins’s last partner left him with a mortgage he can’t afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month’s vacation in Europe.

Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work.

This winter, Jude Bloch can't decide what bothers him more—the crowds of people or the holiday revelry.

When Nicky Hauser walks in on his restaurant-owner boyfriend having sex with a waiter, Nicky loses his lover, his job and his home all in one night.

After serving several years in prison, Glenn Davis returns to his rural Mississippi home, where he forges a path of destruction and violence that finally leads him to a stand-off with Sheriff Bobby

Jimmy's daddy isn't much of a father. He'd much rather lie under the chassis of a '55 Chevy than bother with a son. Jimmy knows it, so he figures he'll leave his daddy alone as much as he can.

Presents a Vietnam war story that probes the long-term effects of combat on two veterans.

At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet.