Love and loss are the two prevailing themes in this 93,000-word short storycollection, featuring nineteen of the author's tales five of which areoriginal to this collection: ""When Fat Men Love Thin Women,"" ""The Death Artist,""""The Uncertainty Principle,"" ""Monster,"" and ""The Love Clinic."" The rest of thestories appeared in such publications as On Spec, TransVersions,Prairie Fire, Northern Frights, Dark Planet,Descant, ChiZine, and the Tesseracts and Queer Fearanthology series.