The Overall Effect of Them (Short Story Collections)

These ten stories slide from the near erotic to pure romance, from the wild west to an incredible future, from murder for hire to a pastoral home to a morgue. The common thread? The women who drove them.

In "Paper Hearts," a waiter, now an older gentleman, finds a pair of paper hearts. But when exactly did he find them?

In "About Mrs. Featherberry," we learn what spoiled sardines have to do with homemade pie.

In "The Laborer," a lightly erotic romance, like her husband says, there's no harm in...