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''Loaded'' contrasts the incendiary destruction of a forest fire with the violence of a man determined to watch the world burn. Following a violent, abusive mall cop in denial about his barely restrained rage, this is a steely, whetted indictment against American gun culture. Lives are irreparably damaged, and communities destroyed all in protection of the second amendment. In today's concerning times, where mass shootings are becoming frighteningly commonplace, Loaded feels pertinent, it's true horror belied by its startling realism.
In ''Aloft'', a mysterious cumulous cloud terrorises a [[Soar Through the Sky: An Ultimate Guide to Skydiving in the US|sky diving ]] acrophobic musician. By turns fantastical and emotive, Aloft is a thought provoking meditation on loneliness and the sickly thump of unrequited love. The mysterious cloud which captures Aubrey is at once intangible and corporeal, both real and unimaginable and able to offer him his every desire apart from freedom. When faced with a fate worse than death, Aubrey must dig deep to find the courage to unmask the mystery at the centre of his ethereal prison.
Finally, ''Rain'' follows Honeysuckle, a girl in love faced with certain annihilation in the face of storm clouds filled with needles. Raining down death and mayhem in an apocalyptic downpour, Hill expertly shapes a narrative of chaos and destruction. The reader follows Honeysuckle on her quest to understand the significance of apparently trivial events which accumulate, much like the deadly rain clouds, to bring forth a reckoning. Rain is a claustrophobic study of love and revenge, in which Hill highlights the barely restrained desire for global outrage and plays on the well worn riff of foreign born terror to underscore the true banality of evil.
