A short collection of five stories featuring encounters between people and animals and ...other things. Old Maid -- Tilly's reading her cards in the park and it's all going just fine, until she gets a client her cards claim is more than he seems. Man in the Maze -- Cameron's on a mission that he has no choice in: Kill the matriarch. He wanders through the heretic's bazaar, looking for such a person, but who is she? Why does he have to kill her? Meeting the Elephant -- Jenda's absolutely terrified by large animals, but when the keeper forgets his notebook, she's going to have the meet the elephant, whether she wants to or not. Footprints in the Dark -- While at a party at the old church that everybody claims is haunted, Jesus notices something that shouldn't be there. A Walk in the Dark -- Meghan wouldn't walk through the woods at the park if she had any other choice, but here she is. She loses her only means of defense, and her penlight doesn't work, and what did she just step in?