Author Description

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the author of Mister Sandman comes a gathering of unusual characters captured in outrageous and humorous situations. Teasing the taboos, Gowdy creates a marriage dialogue between a woman and her transsexual fiancé, who she thought was a man, and litigation between Samuel and Simon who share the same two-headed body. She peoples her stories with Siamese twins, a necrophile, and a pathetically lonely exhibitionist. And she illustrates how uncomfortably close a connection comedy has to human suffering. The title story has been adapted into a movie called "Kissed.