After exchanging his least favorite sexual act for ticket money, Reggie finds himself crossing the desert on a Greyhound bus. Unfortunately, Reggie is on speed and believes that sinister cosmic forces are in play and that they're focused on him. Even worse, he may be right. The realities that surround him — a dream of airplane disasters, obsessed johns, chatty girls on the bus, experimental filmmakers, music videos, poisonous sea creatures, bad feet, and ill-fated wedding ceremonies — have so many layers of meaning that he's finding it harder and harder to distinguish his desires from his needs. Reggie bounces around the country surrounded by a colorful cast of characters who are equally unlikely to reach through the fog of their own aggressive fantasies and connect with the real world.<P>In Distortion, the overlap between truth and illusion disappears as personal visions of forthcoming disaster collide and merge.