As Marilyn Lay Dying: Stories of the Primal Scene

Strange, disturbing stories, full of that lusting madness
which, at times, seems as attendant as our own
shadows. Stories full of tenderness and love, as well, but
love that veers in unexpected directions. Here conventional
frames of understanding can bend or crack apart, allowing
fiction to interfuse with a mercurial reality, flinging
ordinary appearances into disarray. Even fairy tales
occasionally intrude upon the commonplace, to play havoc
with familiar surfaces. Dreams can become preemptive.
Richard Geha explores the frightening, often bizarre,
passions that disrupt mundane lives; he ventures into those
enigmatic spheres that lie as close at hand as our dreams,
as the haunting ghosts of memory, as that face in the mirror
of "the other." The theme of the primal scene, a child's
bewildered understanding of adult passion, resonates
alluringly through all these stories. These elegant tales are
intelligent, complex, poetic and frequently darkly humorous.
In them, readers will certainly feel the diverse parts of
themselves boldly, firmly, sometimes rudely, embraced.