STORIES. -- A homeless man enacts a passion play of loneliness. Two brothers turn their backs on childhood when a family mystery tears them apart. A washed-up psychic passes into the afterlife fairly intact. A man wins a game show and loses his grip. Widowers vanish into slipstream grief, while elsewhere a financial spreadsheet is a woman's last hope for fulfillment. In these stories, whole civilizations might drown without ceremony, yet letters written to a fast food chain can reveal a record of hope and despair, beginnings and endings, memory and loss. Cutting and lyrical, playful and anguished, Deep Sky Objects is an exploration of inner lives--the ways we cope and the ways we choose not to, the cracks we fall into, and how all things change at magnification.