The novelette Shouldn't We Dance? follows Hank, a 20-something coping with the sudden loss of his lifelong best friend, Doug. When Hank goes through Doug's old notebooks, he finds a sense of purpose in finishing the sci-fi story the boys started together during their elementary summers, summoning Doug's ghost in the process. Shouldn't We Dance? is a love song to the power of stories and an honest, funny, and heartwarming portrait of friendship and grief in all its knotty mess.