Interesting monsters : fictions
/ Aldo Alvarez
- Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press , c2001
- 186 p. ; 22 cm.
Heat rises -- Index card, index finger -- A small indulgence -- Quintessence -- A note on the aesthetics and ideology of interesting monsters -- Ghosts, pockets, traces, necessary clouds -- Losing count -- Property values -- Flatware -- Public displays of affection -- Rog & Venus become an item -- Up close -- Other people's complications -- Death by Bricolage -- Ephemera -- Fixing a shadow.
Playful, wry and tinged with melancholy - 16 short stories chronicle the ups and downs of Mark's and Dean's relationship.