In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through
relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds
as they shimmer into and out of each other's lives.
Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to
do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives
doesn't seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars
try to decide if the affair they're having might mean they like each
other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes,
posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as
well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and
sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have
imagined the results.