Catfish arriving in little schools

Collected here are sensate stories sourced mainly in the hollow pit of the belly where a great hunger rages and a love for words takes root. (The) stories here are not easy pieces: the problematic mesh consciousness, language, and time somehow frames their narratives markedly, and the act of writing gets into the act; but always, stray mystifications or nervous profundities are toned down or else humored; and always the startling image is well-observed and the writer's aim is disarmingly true... -from the introduction