Three disturbing stories about despair on the edge of your world.

Disgraced soldier Billy Budd returns to Alton having lost all belief in authority. His greatest wish is to destroy those who make the rules. A foreign power spots an opportunity and hands Budd the wherewithal to tear his home town apart.

Mary May is a recently widowed pensioner without family or close friends. She has no phone, no internet, no bank account. Mary is mugged in her home in Alton and badly needs a caring hand. Much of the overworked welfare community has retreated behind websites.

The Russians deploy nuclear weapons in the Ukraine to disastrous effect. Planet Earth implodes. Two survivors aboard the international space station are flung into the great void where they learn that Earth's last second was part of a galactic experiment.