Large Animals in Everyday Life

I like animals and I like men begins the hopelessly-in-love narrator of The Round Bar who follows her married country singer to Nashville in her own version of a down-and-out song. In The Oysters Pat Boone not the Pat Boone laments his love for his newly married professor while delivering oysters to be irradiated. The oysters themselves are having a hard time deciding whether irradiation is a gain or a loss. Wendy Brenner triumphs in capturing all the normal oddities of life; and in the magic of a few words a bizarre but accurate images he creates our lives and how we live and breathe.