In the 42nd issue of Dark Moon Digest, a small town faces a peculiar seaside problem; two teens discover an unexpected connection; a woman attempts to understand people better; a person comes to terms with their true identity; an office worker finds his own face on a milk carton; a daughter confronts a strange woman haunting her father's grave; rival embalmers go against each other in an unusual competition; a man fails to avoid late-night construction; and an island becomes isolated from the rest of civilization. With fiction by Alethea Avery, Ryan C. Bradley, Marie Croke, Lindsay King-Miller, John Kiste, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Ilan Lerman, Danny McLaren, and Angela Sylvaine, and non-fiction by George Daniel Lea and Jay Wilburn.