The Last Cafe sits beside a long-forgotten highway near the tiny, remote town of Spruce, Colorado. Presiding is poet laureate, Morton Poom, Spruce's most famous native actually, its only famous native. Despite his lofty literary achievements, Poom aspires to write pulp mysteries, an ambition to which he is not well suited. As well, he discusses philosophy with his dog and claims he was once abducted by aliens who journeyed to Earth to find out why its inhabitants prey upon each other.
