Summary:
A collection of short stories that takes place in the Pacific Northwest includes odd characters like an addict who becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and a suburban housewife who commits armed robberies.
Contents:
- Bad boy number seventeen
- Big-dot day
- Doctor Vicks
- Report from the trenches
- A ghost story
- Cavalcade of the old west
- House of grass
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- Ashes
- The water cycle
- Saint Jude in Persia
- Anyone else but me
- Happiness is a chemical in the brain
- Slash
- Late in the realm.
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