Pascal's Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover's suicide. Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn.

Fiction. Pascal's Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover's suicide. Narrow margins, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a brokenhearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn. Blink and you'll miss it.