Anhedonia is a collection of short stories about people with obvious quirks, a morally displaced bunch of men and women out of synch in their own petty worlds and battling hard to maintain some sort of equilibrium. Their days are an abundance of either ennui or anhedonia; normal passions and interests are eschewed for macabre acts, strange follies and odd escapades. Many of the heroes of these fictions dwell on their peculiarity; ordinary everyday acts are sidelined in lieu of secret whims, perverted streaks. The old janitor of Kanashibari (a Japanese title) is far more interested in the strange goings on of the clandestine hospital staff than he is in his own meager life. The comical heroes of Insurrection On are like a futuristic Vladimir and Estragon; they cast away the shackles of their dull lives to become intimate with another, simply because that "other" appears different. In the title story a strange threesome dabble with dark ritualistic acts and fall apart only when their triangle is threatened by a wish to become normal.

The variety of stories (some veer into horror and science fiction) are an attempt to enlarge the peculiarities and foibles that are in all of us; chimera and whimsy refuse to give way to analysis or rationalism, moments of fancy tower over emotion or depth.

These contemporary urban gothic tales are rich in inventiveness and display a host of fractured souls, and every last one of them magnetic.