In a coffee shop in Makati, three strangers cross paths on what may be the last day of the world. In an apartment in Paris, unfriendly dinner guests wait for a frozen leg of lamb to cook. Jude, allegedly the smartest kid in the room, discovers that a high IQ is no guarantee of survival. An actress with the face of an angel and the talent of a brown paper bag considers her rapidly dwindling options. Sociopaths, spies, aspiring golddiggers, heiresses on the run and advertising executives wrongly hunted for murder find themselves on the same train. The neighbors keep missing each other in an apartment building that messes with the space-time continuum. A porn star turned religious fundamentalist preaches on the bus while a tarot card reader battles possession by a demonic dwarf. These are some of the people who populate The Stories So Far, only the second collection of short stories by Jessica Zafra. You don’t have to let them in your house, but you can meet them right here.