A collection of stories about disembodiment, embodiment and the course of desires from the state in between. A troop of mothers escape their bodies to be the essences that cause swear words in the dark. A spirit of the snow displaces the soul of a young girl and regrets her 'forever embodiment' as the lost soul goes through puberty suspended above a beach. Fish-exhausted mothers compliment pastors who receive letters from dead girls. A girl exponentially expands realizing she may have been an abusive man in a past life but finds redemption in a spiritual kinship with Laika the first dog in space, when a parent gets teriminal cancer she realizes Laika is really more destined for him, discovering an occult truth about air hunger.