内容简介：
Most of these short stories have dark edged humor with some jolts of seriousness. Joey has to spend the week with his somber neighbor the oddball Ms. Perish as his parents vacation in Belize. Ms. Perish is rumored to eat housecats that she adopts from various animal shelters. Her creaky old house reveals a deadly secret. A young girl dismembers dolls and plants them in her enemy's play area. A parade of absurdities: a male pregnancy, a witch burning, a mentally ill nun, and a psychedelic psychic. A world where a friendship can happen regardless of time, cultures, and dimensions. Stories of sophisticated vulgarity where emasculation becomes an art. Males who stray, females who plot, unruly children...and you.