There are certain institutional similarities to the pieces—a lack of a baroque quality to the language, say, or a dry, observational sense of humor—but the differences are bigger, more varied.

The face of a flounder, sole, halibut or other flatfish looks like a hodgepodge of mismatched puzzle pieces forced together, with eyes that don't seem to match one another nor the orientation of ...

A Puzzle of Mismatched Pieces Paul Constant Anybody with access to a photocopier and a single, mysterious-sounding word — Indigent , Thrust , and Crabby are still available—can slap together a ...