A follow up to Short Takes, Volume 1 of short fiction across varied topics. In this offering we find a couple inexplicably sharing the same dreams in "The Shared Nightmare", a woman and her dog, Barstow thrust into an adventure when she discovers an old abandoned tunnel in her backyard in " The Buried Doorway", the mystery of what it might be like to find a tombstone with your name and date of death already on it in "The Tombstone", unexpected hauntings when a young couple takes over a property once used as a female prison facility in 17th century England in "The Legend of Parchment Gaol" , an author who finds one of his more nefarious protagonists come to life in "The Fracture in the Scarlet Sky", and finally a woman who enters into a enigmatic agreement with an old woman in her town when she encounters writers' block and it threatens her livlihood in "The Ultimate Ghost Writer".