Early Hour Parables (The Parable Collection: Book Three) by Chris Besonen

Violence reigns and a dumpster overflows with the dead, a mysterious booth provides unique meals, a blind guy unravels discomforting truths, a simple bus ride turns gory, a tattooist and his cult of artworks, a story about macabre painting, a family flees West to find gold but the journey is treacherous, a game show that targets the obese, a girl goes looking for ancient oddities, a summer stay becomes a pottery nightmare, a neighborhood with strict rules about plants, a child predator is given multiple sentences, music plays a major role in a man's fight to protect his family, a woman is stalked by an unsettling being, an author learns the reality behind his works of fiction.