Terry Griggs

"Meet the Perfect Man ... no, no, he's not the hero of Thought You Were Dead. That would be Chellis Beith, literary researcher, slacker, reluctant detective, and a man bedevilled by every woman in his life. There's his lost love, Elaine Champion, a now happily married inventor who uses him for market research, his best friend's dotty ex-wife, Moe, his two vanished mothers, and his menacing boss, Athena Havlock, a celebrated writer who herself becomes involved in the dark side of fiction. The humour is wild, the language a thrill, the mystery within marvelously deft and daft. And as for the Perfect Man ... well, nothing is as it seems. Is it?"--Jacket.

170 p. ; 22 cm

The stories in Quickening crackle with energy -- they are eccentric, wildly inventive, whimsical and fantastic.