Thanks for the kind feedback, Richard! And your question about whether the freaks mate with each other is a profoundly good (and grotesque) one. Many of the freaks in the book are newborns or children, produced by mating...but there are also a few instances of...well, how do I put it gently in a public forum such as this?...Um...carnally freakulate in harmonious union.

I know what you're thinking: I just put those poems in the book because freakulation sells. But I swear that every act of outre oogie-boo in the book is 100% true!

-- Mike A.