A comic version of love and nausea. Sydney, an abstract-novelist-queer is living on Wanda's sex work earnings. Wanda has a bad case of stripper's disgust. They quarrel and hurtle apart, through urban undergrowth, each bolted to a separate flaw in the social texture. There's a multiple personality somewhere, a baby, and a theater--plus a Romanian refugee who has been boiled in history. In this urban jungle, anyone you meet can flash a sentence and reel across the stage, and the sadist is melancholy, the effect of too much senx, power, torture, and poetry.


Camille Roy is a writer and performer of plays, poetry, and fiction. Her most recent book is a work of fiction entitled Swarm. It was published by San Francisco's Black Star Series in 1998 with funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions (poetry and prose, from Kelsey St. Press, published in 1995) and Cold Heaven (plays, from O Books, published in 1993). In 1998 she was the recipient of a Lannan Writers at Work Residency at Just Buffalo Literary Center. She is a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity, and her work is available online here. She has taught experimental fiction and playwriting at San Francisco State University, and has conducted a private workshop for several years.