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Each of the stories that make up "Damage" represent a new take on the theme of difference and strangeness in human life. There are elements of traditional horror, fantasy and the supernatural, but also of beauty, humour, compassion and love. "Damage" explores the fragility of life and love and how they can sometimes survive against the odds, despite the damage that is done to them.

"Long Term Damage" explores a dark side of the human experience in life-altering quick decisions and the consequences of decades-old mistakes. From the young siblings who find horror while searching for a missing teen, to a rude woman stuck in the worst traffic imaginable, and an aging criminal coming face-to-face with his past after taking a bullet, these stories are all at once scary, tense, emotionally charged, sometimes funny, and often devastating.

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here, baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them.

Teenage love is a road fraught with heartache and Jennifer Defoe was no exception. Hers is an unrequited love for a boy who thought her a friend. When he left for the Navy, Jennifer gave up on her future and any hope of love. Michael Harrison left Mercy Ridge with grand plans of travel and adventure only to have it come crashing down upon him after a tragic accident leaves him scarred. He flees back to the only home he has ever known for the chance to heal.

Elizabeth's rocky marriage to the volatile Gabriel Storm suffers a mortal blow when she walks out on him. But her love for her son and her husband draws her back. While fighting for a marriage on the rocks, she struggles to make him understand her need for a career. But it's her unruly heart she fears most of all, for it craves his every touch, his intoxicating taste, his hard, pounding body. Will she stay and give up on her dream or walk away one last time?