In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass: Short stories: A housewife wakes every morning to the sight of several newly chewed up cockroaches on her kitchen floor that the cat has killed during the night. A real estate salesman counts the number of peas in his chicken pot pie and considers the importance of personal property. A murder takes place during a Midwest blizzard.
A similar haze turns the summer sky milky, and the air muffles your head and shoulders like a sweater you've got caught in. In in the summer light, too, the sky darkens a moment when you open your eyes. The heat is pure distraction. Steeped in our fluids, miserable in the folds of our bodies, we can scarcely think of anything but our sticky parts.
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