content: Well, they are fiction in the sense that I don't know anyone named Joe that fits the description and these aren't really direct stories about me or anyone I know. However, in every case my goal is to create a parody or show the perspective of a type of person that does exist. I don't know if you've gone to my website and read "On Having No Head," but that story was inspired by the beheading of two Scandinavian women in Morocco last December. The stories aren't all exactly like that, but I think you get the idea.