Steve Pulley's second volume of 48 short stories, poems, and true-life adventures offers an offbeat, frequently hilarious look into the human (and sometimes alien) foibles of coping with our strange and confusing times. Whether fixing a diabolical bathroom toilet, deciphering the dictionary, smelling Earth flowers from an alien point of view, perfecting bean stew, announcing the end of the world, abducting a homecoming queen, fleeing the ultimate reality show, surviving the office party, searching out the Holy Grail, confronting hoi polloi move-ins, stepping into someone else's shoes to the hilt, campaigning for governor, or hunting down ferocious gorillas in an asparagus patch, Pulley usually manages to conjure up a bizarre and funny perspective.