Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for the Best Work of FictionPublishers Weekly hailed the "wit and subtlety" in Gerald Duff's fiction as "simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon, " and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said "Gerald Duff's dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like." This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story "Fire Ants.