"Winner of the Associated Writing Programs 2000 award in short fiction"--T.p. verso.
Contents
O-lama-lama -- Down the shore everything's all right -- Big bang -- Satellite -- Slacobamorinico -- The last bad thing -- Sixteen -- Propaganda -- Curvature -- Mathematics and acrobatics -- The world's greatest pants -- Disneyland -- Intermittent waves of unusual size and force -- Sunday at Red Lobster -- Does anyone know you are going this way -- Faith -- Fifth grade : a criminal story -- Monkey stew -- The girl in the fall-away dress.
