My Secret Life as a Ham and Gruy Re on Rye (and Other Adventures in Applied Psychology) New and Collected Fiction

In this collection of 21 stories, Don Hucks invites us into the day to day lives of ordinary people who just happen to inhabit impossibly ridiculous worlds - worlds in which the bizarre and the mundane are hopelessly entangled, where the hilarious and the horrifying chase each other in ever-tightening spirals, where everything is a joke but nobody seems to be laughing. In these peculiar environs, we frequently encounter characters doomed by their own willingness to politely comply with the unreasonable demands of their outrageous worlds, and if we look closely enough at Hucks's motley parade of misfits, we might just recognize, here and there, a shadow of our own world and catch the occasional glimpse of ourselves.