The World is Neither Stacked for You nor Against You

The World is Neither Stacked for Nor Against You is a book of disparate parts, a sort of Frankenstein monster of a collection.  And indeed, there is a monster story, as well as a ghost story, an angel story, a mystical religious story, and a mystical secular story. Some of the work is experimental, some of it is outlandish, and some of it is as simple and comforting as a home-baked pie. Its stories are made of gypsum, bituminous coal, red bricks and whimsy.  They are equal parts crassitude and chimera.