These stories take you from Canada to Brazil with all the stops in between and into the lives of unusual characters and through the trepidations of unforeseen circumstance. None of the names herein have been changed to protect the guilty and none of these stories is fiction. They find Slimshanks in various places around the globe caught in situations that range from the miraculous and terrifying to the absurd. Many take place in Latin America among indigenous and campesino cultures. Others ricochet between a wayward dog, a suicidal truck and the algebra between sex and lunch.