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Hearing a voice from beyond the grave is usually a chilling, blood-curdling experience. However, being such a voice, issuing unheard from an improbable source (a parrot, a waterbed), offers the lost soul plenty of time to reflect on the missed opportunities of a life not fully lived. This vision of postmortem regret is at the heart of Butler"s sad, mirthful stories. In "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot," a woman buys the avian reincarnation of her ex-husband in a Houston pet store and takes him home, where he ruminates on his past and present failure to express his unconditional love for his wife: "I was not enough. "Bad bird," I say. I"m sorry." Widowed housewife Gertie in "Woman Loses Cookie Bake-Off, Sets Self on Fire" chooses self-immolation when she is forced to realize that her whole life has been sucked away, down the ungrateful gullets of men. As rumored, John Kennedy is not dead, but has merely lost his capacity for self-censorship and is kept in seclusion by the CIA to restrain him from compulsively revealing state secrets. In "JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction," the 79-year-old former president travels incognito to Sotheby"s to retrieve a relic of his former grandeur but is woefully short of cash. Butler"s wicked humor is tempered by genuine compassion for the characters" indelible misfortunes. Readers everywhere will enjoy these inventive, compelling fantasies.
Contents:
•Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed
•Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Philandering Husband
•Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis
•Woman Loses Cookie Bake-Off, Sets Self on Fire
•Jealous Husband Returns in Form Of Parrot
•Woman Struck by Car Turns Into Nymphomaniac
•Nine-Year-Old Boy Is World's Youngest Hit Man
•Every Man She Kisses Dies
•Doomsday Meteor Is Coming
•Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover
•JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction
•Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle
