Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt s stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a man s apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In another, a wife takes her husband to a city where it is women, not men, who are the dominant sexbut was it all a hallucination when she finds herself tied...