#BotchedExecutions | The Gas, The Rifle, and Tennessee

Twelve stories, starting with a Roswell officer's sealed statement about bodies under a tarp, now sitting in the Pentagon's newest UFO files, and running through a voice on a basement recording in Cheyenne, an airliner that passed an object the pilot put at the "size of four toasters", a Hamburg murder warrant over a girl's death in Indiana, and a pest controller in France who says he mistook his wife for a rat.

Twenty years after his father walked out, Josh gets a letter saying the man's dead and has left him a cabin in the Montana woods. Inside, there's a shelf full of matches and not a single light.

On her walk home from the bank, Dory hears her mother's voice in her head, throws her shoulders back, and holds her head high, then looks down to find her shadow still hunched over like a dwarf.

On the night of November 2nd, 1966, a sewing machine salesman named Woodrow Derenberger was driving home on Interstate 77 outside Parkersburg, West Virginia, when a craft shaped like an old kerosene lamp passed his van and slowed to a stop in front of it. The man who stepped out wore a dark overcoat over a glistening green uniform and an extraordinarily broad grin, and he gave his name as Indrid Cold without ever saying a word out loud.

Lost in the Newfoundland fog on the way to see their daughter and baby grandson, a couple from Brampton, Ontario, picks up a hitchhiker who sends them to the Eternity Cove Hotel and Lounge, where the man behind the desk already knows their names.