If you grew up in the age before streaming services and DVRs perhaps you were acquainted with an individual who had a particular story, or soap they watched without fail. Day in and day out, season after season, devoted fans turned to the network daytime drama broadcast and followed the story arcs and plot lines as if it were a religion to them. With the passage of a new day, they invested a little of themselves into the fictitious lives on the TV and outside of an earth shattering, end of world experience, the world stopped when the story was on.

Pinkie Stevens waited all summer for Labor Day, and the start of a fresh season of Bay Central Hospital. After the shocking season finale of last season, it's been a very long, agonizing summer, filled with anticipation and a burning desire to see Bay Central Hospital's cliff hanger resolved, but with an unexpected turn of events in the world outsideof her television Pinkie might never know who shot Doctor Chase Morgan last season.

From the same author who brought you, "Roller Derby Apocalypse; The Queens of Iron" this author uses the short story medium to address deeply perplexing social issues in silly, campy, science fiction, short stories.