Dark Dreams, Pale Horses

Dark Dreams: A plague decimates South America, and an infected survivor
is hunted through the shanties of Rio de Janeiro; an asteroid strikes
central Australia, triggering waves of unspeakable horror; a pink
Cadillac, full of screams, rumbles toward the Promised Land.

Pale Horses: A girl dreams of escaping her black and white life, into a
Technicolor world where she is the star; the Shepherd of Souls keeps
vigil over a dying child, while civilization clings to faith on the edge
of a ruined world; an elderly lady recalls her wondrous childhood, in a
present where the walls are too close, and reality uncertain.

In his debut collection, Rio Youers presents six stories—glimpses of
worlds, and lives, fraught with pain, love, and hope—where the things we
trust are often fractured, and where the darkest places sometimes hold
the brightest lights.