Trace Elements — Tracy Knight

"Tracy is what so few other writers, even the great ones, are . . . an original." Ed Gorman in his Introduction "His fascination with human beings of all stripes linked with his skills as a writer and poet combine to shape the voice and form of his stories." Here are 13 stories both bizarre and humane. A young intern is assigned to deal with an outcast man who suffers psychotic episodes every Father's Day. A man sets out to murder both himself and his deformed daughter, who can't tell him that she loves being alive. The bulbous-headed nursing-home patient has absorbed more human grief than even a visitor to earth can bear . . . and it's all spilling out.