In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling easy rawlins detective Novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, socra...In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling easy rawlins detective Novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, socrates fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons.