Comprised of 40 short stories, this collection will shows the full force of Giorgio's flexible literary muscle. There are characters who choose to live with an iguana instead of a spouse, who use their lunch hours to seek out dead birds for burial in a private back-yard cemetery, who buy new answering machines and find existing messages, and much more. From light to dark to funny to serious to change-your-life to change-the-world, these stories will leave you mesmerized and satisfied. The majority have appeared in literary magazines, but there are a few never-seen-before that will only appear in this collection.