...then somebody or something picks me up and hoists me into the air so high I can see the trees and the streets and everything else below. I get the sense that I’m either floating or flying but I can barely feel anything since I’m literally paralyzed with fear. I’m still awake enough to notice one thing: there’s an animal—or what looks like an animal, a really big one with red eyes—hovering to my right and staring hard at my face. And while he’s staring into my face I’m staring sideways into his and thinking, this has to be a dream...

Four friends in South Jersey work dead-end jobs but find community and purpose in their creativity and involvement in the South Jersey/Philadelphia music scene. Following a couple of unexpected deaths, a chance encounter with a mysterious record label exec throws the lives of everyone involved into hallucinatory disarray. Strange events ensue: poltergeist activity, savage claw marks on the top of a car, and unexplained bloody wounds. Some of the friends are thrown into moral dilemmas, making choices that might not be entirely their own.

​Set in the late 1980s and told in the first person by the four main characters, the novel straddles the intersection of horror, humor, and surrealism. It ultimately stands as a treatise on the ferocity and urgency of creativity as well as the predatory aspects of the music industry.