In this, her second book of short stories or fragments of life inspired by true events, Leven turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Familiar everyday events of life mutate into those that are incredible and stupefying, yet always philosophically profound. The stories-a woman, throughout her long life, coming to terms with sex and her many lovers; and a young, professional fellow on a business trip-maintain a lofty profundity and suspense-level until the unforeseen, final denouement. Each story relentlessly blasts away at and shatters commonly accepted truisms and stale platitudes. Leven is undoubtedly an iconoclast, an image-breaker, and the reader will be unable to flee from her challenge to many sacred principles and doctrines by which we are guided through life. Leven always holds fast to her own unique, logical perspective and philosophy of life. After reading these short pieces, one will surely have been exposed to a unique, often original perspective on the events depicted. Hopefully, the reader's 'thought-repertory' will be significantly modified. Whether agreeing or not, the reader will see things differently or have been exposed to a new viewpoint In these two short stories, we encounter normal, intelligent, introspective individuals, Brian and Karen, who end up enmeshed in life situations that, for them, unexpectedly warp into incredible life and thought-altering episodes. Leven's characters, along with her readers, are enveloped in a detailed anatomy of the human heart and mind through meticulously painted events, dialogue, and a unique philosophy that permeates all.