In Bites of the Southeast, a fortune-teller finds herself unable to read the destiny of a flooded village through the patterns of her starfruit seeds while two best friends discover the unspeakable consequences of stealing a little pocket knife from a recurring nightmare. As the paths of each story within this collection collide and diverge and then collide and diverge again, the faintest shimmer of what may be the hidden patterns ruling the destinies of the southeastern inhabitants will reveal itself for the briefest of moments before fading away again.