A variety of weird tales can be found in this volume, such as the flash piece about a common thief who must live out the remainder of his solitary life doing hard labor in exchange for food, or the longer piece about a structural engineer who lives in a dystopian society were the winds often exceed three hundred miles an hour during the storm season which last seven or eight months out of the year and the citizens of the over-populated city must remain indoors in their sturdy thirty-story residential buildings, half of which are subterranean.