The whole world is whirling in confusion. Months of contradictory reporting from governments and their advisors have eroded trust and released dammed up floods of destruction and threat. Happily some people have been concentating on using the limits on their social freedom to fuel creativity. This volume of short fiction is my attempt; word play as a basis to explore meaning.Locks is such an ambiguous word. Follow it with adjectives of being, and stories emerge from unexpected corners into the light. These are four of them.