Toxic Nightjars

Tam Lennox is a painter. A creator of lines, lines, lines. His city is his canvas and his canvas is populated with the nattering voices and fluttering wings that fill all spaces unbrushed by a creator's will. A rival artist in the city decapitates lizards. Another has gone missing. A detective investigates that disappearance. A globetrotting friend uses the painter's minifridge to store his homemade stash of LSD. And somehow, after untold passes from left to right and right to left, all these characters manage to squeeze themselves within the 8' X 20' gessoed rectangle in Tam's studio apartment.