It is Holi, the festival of colours. Aditi's seven-month pregnant sister and her brother in law are visiting them. Unknowingly Aditi drinks a couple of glasses of bhang, an intoxicant. Things start to happen...
The Gathering is continued in a second volume, Book II. Part of the Hartstein universe
John Franck, 41, a sex addict, thus far has hidden it from his wife, but his shrink encourages him to make a recording of some of his conquests and Argie, his wife happens on it. What happens after this is the main story of the gathering in Houston.
A Piece of My Mind Rachel's adventures in self-delusion reach even more outlandish and erotic extremes. Read along as she justifies a variety of slutty adventures under the guise of feminism and sophistication. In addition to the codes provided, pregnancy and bestiality are hinted at, but not realized on stage.
Grace Chow interviews with a striking woman for an important job after graduate school. To win the posiiton, she must simply endure two pre-employment tests.
Alif is a country quite unlike any you may have visited but a great deal like all of them. It is a land where the State runs the brothels, but where many liberties are proscribed. In this land, Ana takes up employment as a secretary in a State brothel, but finds out as much about herself as about the others who work there. She falls in love with a woman sentenced to serve in the brothel for the crime of lesbianism. Needless to say, the course of true love does not run smooth.