This collection of poems and stories examines the existential angst of individuals who are confronted with the impure, the contingent, the Other.

It incorporates elements of myth, mass culture, and race to interrogate notions of purity inherent in the formation of self. By turns dark, philosophical, and poignant, "Clean" reveals its complicity with the dirt with which it is forced to reckon.

"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt

"Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. In this highly original medical thriller, Tess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, andthe distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question."Without Anesthesia"spanstime periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's...

FULL COLOR EDITION, with original art by YALDA ZAKERI.

"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt Original, sobering, and haunting- Mariam Beevi Lam

Hallucinatory medical nightmare-Lisa Lutz

"Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. WhenTess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, the distinctions between fiction and reality,...