Short stories on love, dreams, abandonment, alienation and other themes. Titles include Pinball Wizard, Excerpt for a Memoir, Alienation, Picnic Table Blues, So Called Phone Interference, Premonitions versus Coincidence, Pangs, Smoky Fun, Of Stench and Other Things, Acute Pain, Silken Sable Longings, Panic Mode, Moving, Some sort of Hell, Disappearance, Lucky Parents, The Intruder, Siblings, Pregnant or Fat, The Big Tease, Nana, The Third Woman, On Abandonment, The Jewels, Reaching for Recognition, Why we Dream, Dreaming of Swans and Birds, and Death Dream.