Steve Hughes's characters in Stiff are a handful-love-struck, addled, smart-ass, and wildly innocent. A Detroit romance, this collection of fiction is outrageous with lives run amok, taking high-risk turns, and rejuvenating themselves. Disaster is every day, often small-time, with that familiar taste-sour and sweet-then a blast of chicken fat and heat. Hughes's stories offer up 'a necessary apology to the world' for daily, heartfelt damage done.–Janet Kauffman "author of Eco-dementia (Wayne State University Press, 2017)" (6/21/2018 12:00:00 AM)