Near Flesh

A woman invests in a series of sex robots to get her off and comes to terms with the limitations - and real threat - of automated companionship. A knowing young student pursues an affair with an older man, the poet in residence at the university where she studies writing, and weighs the benefits and costs of their arrangement. A mother moves to a farm with her family and must come to terms with the violence simmering beneath her skin. 'Near Flesh' is the first and only collection of short fictio