Paul Reynolds, a photographer who creates UFO photos for tabloid magazines, wakes up with no idea where he is or how he got there. He can't even recall his name. A strange man lurks nearby, breathing heavily and flipping through a book. Paul hears the man's breath, but he cannot see him. He realizes with mounting panic that his eyes no longer function. He remembers racing down a desolate West Texas highway. He remembers a cop who pulled him over for speeding. He remembers a shotgun-brandishing cook chasing him out of a diner. And he remembers a life abandoned, but he cannot put together the jigsaw puzzle that explains where he is: blind, wanted by the law, and in the company of this invisible stranger. In the desert town of Armbister, Texas where temperatures hover near 110 degrees, Paul's memory, intangible as a heat mirage, lies just beyond his reach, and God may be a coyote.

"Birds Nobody Loves" is an illustrated collection of poems about two of the less popular denizens of the sky. After spending a lot of time watching vultures and grackles around his home in central Texas, author James Brush "never ceases to be amazed--and just a little horrified--by the scorn these two creatures illicit. It's precisely that derision and disdain for these two species that attracted me to them as subject matter for a poetry collection." The grackle poems take a sometimes humorous look at our various fears of the other (and the things that spark those fears: ugliness, alienation, disease, fear of change) while the vulture poems examine themes of mortality and the connections and interrelationships between the human and natural worlds. Most of the poems in this collection have been published in various online and print journals and on James's blog.