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A collection of inventive short stories, all previously published in literary journals, and organized into three sections: "The Present, " "The Past, " and "The Future." Some explore delicate nuances of human behavior with sly humor and serious underpinnings of private pain; others venture into magical realism/ science-fiction and draw parallels with present-day politics. In the title story, a well-intentioned, respectable married woman (the kind who worries about patronizing locally owned businesses and teaches worm-composting at her daughter's elementary school) has to make a decision about deceiving her husband and wonders if she is evil or "just pushing the envelope of human experience." In another, homeless Rose claims to be "between apartments" because she likes the "gay-divorcee, merry widowesque" sound of it.

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