Jesus and his adopted son live in a small house in Higbee, Missouri and play cards with Satan. A sarcastic elephant and her boy search post-apocalyptic Tennessee for a home. A retired clerk smokes off-brand cigarettes and is transformed into an opera star.

Simple Things: stories where nothing is simple.

Steven Popkes lives in Massachusetts on two acres of land where he and his wife garden, grow bananas and breed turtles. His day job consists of writing support software for space and ballistic systems. He insists he is not a rocket scientist. He is a rocket engineer.