It is an Ordinary World that we live in, but what would you do if... You kidnap a seven-month old child and his parents refuse to ransom him and tell you that you could keep him? The woman of your wet dreams finally shows up outside your window, but you live on the 34th floor and your window side has no balcony? The people on the bus to whom you are speaking the Word of the Lord suddenly become hostile? You find out that most of your Grade Three classmates have killed themselves after leaving the same message on their social media accounts? You wake up to discover that the apocalypse which your church has predicted has not come to pass and you have to live the rest of your life after you just gave up everything because you thought you were going to die anyway? These are just some of the possibilities explored in Jose Miguel Arguelles’s newest collection. Our darkest hours are over. Welcome to the ordinary world, where it can be more terrifying.