Jim Gold excels as a writer in the joys of improbability.
His stories seize upon the most unlikely of heroes and heroines, and plunge them into situations none of us could ever imagine.
They come to us with a hilarious assortment of odd backgrounds, very strange attitudes, and utterly surprising needs and ambitions.
Some of them are people.
Some are animals, and others plants.
There are guys and gals who worry about their sex lives or their deaths, a talking turnip, a c.