A second story collection by the author of Candyfreak captures the colorful lives of such characters as a young magazine editor forced to endure a bizarre blind date, a couple positive that have received implants by space aliens, a young boy desperate to please his father with his baseball skills, and others.

A debut anthology of short fiction explores the relationships between young men and women in a cynical era in such works as 'Valentino,' 'Geek Player, Love Slayer,' and the title story, about an El Paso newspaper clerk assigned to review heavy metal concerts whose attraction to the music fuels a life-altering love affair with a Chicana woman. A first collection. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)