Inspired to write a short story every month of the year, Michael Ruiz imagines a wide variety of fiction filled with romance, ambiguity, and humor: a woman's fetish for her journal; an Internet tryst gone awry; a family indebted to their bloodline; an unfortunate phone call; a galactic docking bay repair crew; a bucket that bestows daisies; a perfectly planned plan for a breakup; a man's test in his faith; a lover with the intent to stop a wedding; a college student trying to pass a class; a young girl's thirst for a vampire; and a quest to propose marriage to your girlfriend. The 2008 Short Story Collection includes all twelve stories that were written that year.