Bill Welden

When a couple runs over a stranger's dog, they compete for the moral high ground at any cost.

The workplace: bad coffee, stray roaches. The wheels of business churn. Enter a mysterious blob from outer space that crashes into the office and eats a man alive. His death wails annoy everyone; the authorities are called. Take a dive into the unknown horrors of bureaucracy, apathy and goo - and don't forget to turn in your paperwork.

A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone.

In a world where each dying human must sit on a trial to determine which digital afterlife they will reside in, aging politician Simon Peterson must make a case for his consciousness to be uploaded to the artificial heaven instead of hell.