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Anders Flagstad's new novel Thad Says Parts Is Parts (And Thad Is Right) is a screwball comedy of errors straight from the vaults. Literally. It's an adaptation of the Roman playwright Plautus's comedy Epidicus, but set in 21st century LGBT San Francisco, and asking the often agonizing and perplexing question "Is it possible to be rich, gay, San Franciscan and happy, all at the same time?"

Many are those who ask. Few are answered. Even fewer remember what the question was when the answer hits them squarely between the eyes with all the subtlety of a rapidly swung two-by-four. Eddie Stone...

This is a book of short stories. Everybody has a story. Everybody has a life. So do buildings. We think we see buildings, we think we see people and we think we know them. But we don't. Not really. We see what we want to see. What actually goes on inside (people and buildings) - kidnapping, murder, love, death, betrayal, unwashed dishes, parties crashed by homeless men, drag queens leaving their apartments without a sun hat - it would shock and amaze you. So, what can you learn about life from the city of San Diego - land of beaches, palm trees, mesas, waterless deserts and demons and angels?...

In a city on the edge of the continent - in a place where the real and the surreal melt in a foggy fondue and everything is possible - on streets where homeless people get heckled by defunct Roman Emperors, where lovers tell their futures by deciphering tattoos and Death is just one of many tenants barely making a living out of transient hotel, in such a city, what would it take surprise someone? Anders Flagstad's new collection of short stories and novellas - Spare Parts - is an answer of sorts and San Francisco is the city, of course. Spare Parts is book one of series - Principal Parts - a...