"It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can..." On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

"Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy." A mermaid princess makes a faustian bargain with an unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince on land.