title: Dear Dead Person and Other Stories (High Risk Books)
author:  Benjamin Weissman 
description: The last thing these violent, macabre, sad, fetid, and occasionally quite funny stories need is to be collected. Placed together, their disconnected narrators and formulaic structures create a numbing sameness. The weakest are the minimalist stories of violent murders. As hard as he tries-and he tries very hard-Weissman can't shock us. This is America, after all, and as soon as a severed head appears we all know the narrator is soon to have sex with it. Far better are the reports from the domestic front: the mom who takes out a contract on her son's wife rather than give him up, a teenaged girl who seduces her silent brother with a barrage of sex talk, the obese woman who punishes her child by sitting on him until he expires, the free-thinking Christian woman who creates a paean to fellatio, the dad who writes a letter to the victim of an auto accident, thanking him for cheering up his family's uneventful vacation. "'Please, Mommy,'" he said, 'I want to touch the dead people.'" In the best of these stories, we get to. For large public libraries.<br /><i>Brian Kenney, Brooklyn </i><br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  DEATH IS FOR THE DYING
  
  
  Andrew Hixson is the bestselling author of the John Handful series: A Handful
  Of Secrets (A Short Story Collection), Blind Spot and most recently The
  Oxmarket Aspal Murder Mystery. All his thrillers feature the lateral thinking
  private detective John Handful. Andrew Hixson recently won a Waterstones Short
  Story award for best Halloween short story. A former logistics supervisor for
  a local distribution firm, Andrew lives in Suffolk with his wife, two
  daughters and two granddaughters.
  
  
  Find out more about Andrew Hixson at: www.andrewhixson.com.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  DEATH IS FOR THE DYING #
  
  
  A JOHN HANDFUL NOVEL 3
  
  
  Archie Andrews tries the new cologne his new girlfriend gave him for his
  birthday. He goes out to get some food for his birthday party and is later
  found dead near the vicinity of his apiary. With no clues, no suspects and no
  idea how he died, the Suffolk Constabulary call their consulting lateral
  thinking private d