acknowledgement : s stories from this collection have previously appeared in the following : listen in arkansas review the hen man in the wandering army subject : email eros in thieves jargon the plot to kidnap stonehenge in from the asylum chin-chin on golgotha in sugarmule and unlikely stories and in the chapbook , short story and other short stories ( parallel press ) his last work in art times hypnotic induction in raging face the lita conversation in the cerebral catalyst and in the southern hum chapbook the lita conversation write em right in eye-rhyme at the zoo in bewildering stories what lemmy found in the woods in torkstar underground fiction barbra and chuck said wed like each other in internet fiction my continued conversation with the tv in girls with insurance the heart is a transmission in juked mitmensch in stranger box wheres the game in chick flicks ezine punk band in slightly different form in in posse review chin-chin in eden in slightly different form in lonzies fried chicken , poetrysuperhighway , and in the chapbook , chin-chin in eden ( still waters press , 2003 ) talk about talk in cautionary tale adman in heat city review conversation with the headless man in the journal of experimental fiction spring ahead , fall behind in the starry night review my continued conversation with the ghost of john lennon in yankee pot roast my continued conversation with insomnia in dream virus my continued conversation with the ghost of my father in skive she and he in a swivet in pindeldyboz part of my continued conversation with my father appeared in the journal of modern post the final thankyous .