A sea witch, a bossy Virgin Mary, and a lesbian widow's wife--in ghost form--walk into a short story collection .
Welcome to Stoop City , where your neighbours include a condo-destroying cat, a teen queen beset by Catholic guilt, and an emergency clinic staffed entirely by lovelorn skeptics.
Couples counseling with Marzana, her girlfriend's ghost, might not be enough to resolve past indiscretions; our heroine could need a death goddess ritual or two.