- When an American vice president is chosen to be humanity's first representative to meet the mysterious occupant of a UFO, the tired scripts and habits of her decadent lifestyle are burned away in the searing light of a new reality.
- An up-and-coming Hollywood movie director faces the end of her career when she realizes the arrival of the UFOs calls for new stories that she does not know how to tell.
- A venal American president releases all of the government's secret UFO files to distract from his attempt to steal an election that he lost.
- In the basement labs of a private aerospace company, two engineers labor away on a project as secret and compartmentalized as their own love affair.
These stories and more in The UFO Chronicles: District of Columbia
This collection of self-contained but interconnected stories imagines the disruptions and revelations that occur when our ordered, perfunctory modern society becomes fully conscious of the uncanny, inexplicable presence of UFOs. Its characters ride the cultural and political shockwaves unleashed as UFO secrecy begins to unravel. In each story, characters come face to face with a unique type of extraterrestrial visitor, and their identities are irrevocably altered as a result. The strange craft and creatures unmask the strangeness that is in us.