Love and loss are the two prevailing themes in this 93,000-word short story collection, featuring 19 of the author’s tales—five of which are original to this collection:

    * "When Fat Men Love Thin Women"
    * "The Death Artist"
    * "The Uncertainty Principle"
    * "Monster"
    * "The Love Clinic"

The rest of the stories appeared in such publications as On Spec, TransVersions, Prairie Fire, Northern Frights, Dark Planet, Descant, ChiZine, and the Tesseracts and Queer Fear anthology series.

"Robert Boyczuk is a supremely talented short-story writer." – Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing

"Boyczuk keeps his stories tight and fast-moving, drawing his characters with quick, bold strokes." – Nancy Varian Berberick, Tangent

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Paperback: 316 pages
Author: Robert Boyczuk
Publisher: ChiZine Publications (December 23, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0980941032
ISBN-13: 978-0980941036

Table of Contents

   1. Query
   2. Gaytown
   3. Home
   4. Assassination and the New World Order
   5. When Fat Men Love Thin Women
   6. Jazz Threnody
   7. Doing Time
   8. Falling
   9. Object of Desire
  10. The Death Artist
  11. Shika
  12. Tabula Rasa
  13. The Back Shed
  14. The Uncertainty Principle
  15. Monster
  16. The Love Clinic
  17. Pirates
  18. Cure for Cancer
  19. Horror Story

Query
September 20, 19—
Dear Mr. Poyntz:
Thank you for your query of September 12th. I have just returned from a short (but long overdue) vacation in the southern climes, and am afraid I am somewhat behind in my correspondence. Yes, we received your manuscript; a detailed log of all submissions is kept and it clearly shows your manuscript (Hipshot by Alfred Poyntz, 437 pages in length) arrived on April 14 of the previous year.

Indeed, I recall the manuscript in question, for, if I am not mistaken, it was printed entirely on pink paper. Though this is not as unusual as one might imagine, it was the only one (pink, that is) that I had received in the last year (canary yellow and powder blue leading the way
amongst those who favour colour).

Over the past months I watched it advance from shelf to shelf, slowly making its way across the bookcase reserved for submissions, until it achieved the final shelf. From there I moved it to my desktop two weeks ago. You should have had your reply already were it not for an urgent editorial matter that required my immediate attention. Unfortunately, this matter arose just before my vacation, and occupied all my time until the moment of my departure, and so I am somewhat embarrassed to say I did not manage to read as much as a single page of your manuscript. I did, however, resolve to tackle it straightaway upon my return.

Life, alas, is uncertain at best. ...

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