A blacksmith and an amateur gunslinger embark on journey through the west together after they kill a man but soon separate and have surreal experiences of their own.

An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman’s rural home.

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens…