Following the critical success of his debut collection, "All Over," and of his debut novel, "Pacazo," Roy Kesey now brings us a new gathering of short stories, "Any Deadly Thing." These stories first appeared in magazines including "McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter" and "American Short Fiction," and have been widely anthologized; among them are winners of a Pushcart Prize special mention, an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and "The Missouri Review's" Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction. With story locales ranging across the Americas to Europe and...