Belonging and the search for home and family are at the center of the title story, "Fatted Calf Blues." Here, a woman hitchhikes home to Alberta to see her dying father. At a truck stop near Dauphin, Manitoba she meets a fellow traveller who radically changes the course of her homecoming. "The Darkened Door" explores the nature of desire when a couple arrives home to discover an anonymous love note on their apartment door and can't help but be intrigued. How ideals can become delusions is explored in "The Animal Room" where a university caretaker's smooth operation of his Animal Room is upset shy medical student forces him to examine a lost part of himself.

Steven Mayoff writes fiction, poetry, and lyrics. In 2008 his manuscript Destinations and Departures was chosen out of 5,000 entries to be a Top-100 Semi-finalist in the Amazon.com Breakout Novel Award. A portion of this manuscript also won the 2003 David Adams Richards Prize presented by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. His poetry chapbook Fridge Magnet Cycle will be published by Mercutio Press. He has collaborated with singer/songwriter Melanie Doane and Winnipeg composer David R. Scott. He also contributed lyrics to the dance show Swingstep, for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award. Steven was born in Montreal, QC and now lives in Ellerslie, PE. His fiction and poetry have appeared in publications in Canada, Algeria, France, Ireland, and the United States.

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