The Sleeping Mannequin Inn — Kelly Green

Absurd, humorous, vulgar and illuminating, the strange tales in this book, bubbling underground for a decade and finally forced into the light, are the products of two native Minnesota writers bent on destruction of the normal. These six stories and one mini-epic poem will introduce you to: feuding bootleggers with altruistic hootch, gangstas disguised as farmhands, a dubious cop and a fashion designer hunting down a kidnapped banker with a taste for dark pleasures, a fiendish Surgeon General and his despicable exploits, grand theft dental in outer space, crooks, boxers, brothels, bottomless pits and a traveling group of entertainers serving up salacious pantomimes. Altogether, just what you've been seeking but were afraid to ask for. The Sleeping Mannequin Inn stories require an adult, but fairly twisted mind on the part of the reader and an affordable donation to the authors and publisher, a small price to pay for happiness in a often-contemptuous world. Buy all means, dig in.