In another, a customer in a high-end fashion boutique enters a change room and won’t leave, and the main character devotedly serves this customer for days on end, eventually suspecting that the entity in the stall is not even human. She loves it, she gets massive…and her husband doesn’t notice. In the titular story, the main character is a store clerk and a wife, and on a whim she takes up bodybuilding. Many of the stories feature some ordinary complaint in the life of an ordinary woman – to do with work, to do with a relationship, or something else – that is intertwined with some aspect of the world behaving in some manner that is different than we would expect in our consensus reality.
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