Welcome to Los Angeles, where the glitter is a form of dust and every soul is a story waiting to be looted.

In these hills, the most profound connections are forged through theft: of secrets, of identities, of lives left paused in mid-sentence. An insomniac novelist steals a boy's future to jumpstart her own. A dog walker trades in the overheard confessions of the elite. A faded pop star's abandoned mansion becomes a sacred text for squatters performing her pain. A porch pirate's trophy opens a door to cosmic, devouring desire.

From the porn sets of the Valley to the silent homes of the canyons, the desperate, the numb, and the hungry enact their own peculiar salvations. They don't break in to steal the silver. They break in to find a reflection they can finally recognize-or a script they can finally rewrite.

Chaos Priority is a collection of corrosive, glittering tales about what happens when the curated self collapses and the raw, messy id takes the wheel. It's about the sacred act of trespass, the religion of resonance, and the beautiful, terrible chaos that becomes the only true priority when nothing else is left.