This eclectic mix of short stories mixes the real and the surreal and the sharply comic in an economic prose style:
WAITING FOR THE BUTCHER: Penny remembers, including a visit from the King, but how accurate are her memories―and when will the butcher arrive?
THE STALKER: everyone has a stalker but its message is unique to you.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANTHRAX ANNIE: the beans are spilled on this larger-than-life character and her squeeze, Pathogen Pete.
THE THRILLING DELINQUENCY OF HER ARMPITS: a writer meets one of his characters in a motel room...
A WEDNESDAY IN JUNE: Amis meets Woolf in the steps of Mrs Dalloway on the road to Armageddon.
CITY CAR-PARKING ATTENDANT ATTACKS ROCKET: a newspaper headline is misinterpreted to comic effect.