In Christian Moody's stories and novella, small town Middle American families live their lives against a backdrop in which the natural world is a potent and at times magical force, alternatively comforting and malevolent. Townspeople perform their most secret acts in a dense forest where the trees witness with human-like eyes. In a near-future farm town, a sudden burst of fecundity affects crops and people alike. The collection is at once eerie and enchanting.