\u003cp\u003eSpontaneous combustion occurs when Bill, a forty-year-old barista and a failed poet, meets James, a disabled factory worker and a daddy hunk, at an OctoBear Dance.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor six months they share weekends of incredible passion at James\u0026rsquo;s house up north in the country. Winter has never seemed hotter in their flannel sheets. But on the first day of spring James abruptly informs Bill over the phone that it\u0026rsquo;s not going to work out and hangs up. No further explanation: just the static of silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeeling haunted like Djuna Barnes while she wrote her novel \u003cem\u003eNightwood \u003c/em\u003ein the 1930s, Bill searches for answers in his recollections of James and others who\u0026rsquo;d departed too early from his life. When he does discover why James left, the answer comes from a mysterious stranger with secrets of his own.\u003c/p\u003e
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