The fantastic and fabulating stories in Intention and Innocence are populated by extraordinary characters. The much-loved bullfighter Pamodoro, for example, or the longing austronaut Ne, and the twin kings Claus and Yve who decide to dig the world's deepest hole. The seven stories in this collection all revolve around loneliness, community, and the sorrow over something lost, and thus say something essential about what narratives we need in our lives, as individuals and as a society.