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Glistening with mischief and perversity, Pushcart Prize-winner Jack Pendarvis s newest series introduces readers to a world of dreamers set on the edge of types of catastrophe a world merely a wink and a nod from our very own. In the title novella a fundamentalist teen-ager should single handedly face the problems of the religious mission concerning secular humanists, an apocalyptic folk performer, and their own misguided hormones. A young millionaire is dealt poignantly with among other things by the other stories pretending to be always a detective, the great people who created the diarrhea-causing gum, and a tollbooth operator who becomes an unplanned drug mule. Underlying each comedic neurotic perspective and treasure is definitely a sympathy and intellect seldom present in contemporary satire.