A dreamy and thoughtful collection of interconnected short stories, told to one another by lost souls. Basically Driftwood is a place where worlds go to die: after some kind of cataclysm, people find that their world is now a fragment of itself, smashed up against other dying worlds, each world gradually diminishing until they disappear in the crush of other worlds. In such a place, you cannot hang on to your past life; if you do not wish to disappear with your world, you must become a drifter, homeless until death. Without permanence, the only foundation that the drifters are able to build are the stories they tell one another.