Excerpt: Only the Dead May Use the Bathroom, & Other Stories

...all the clowning professors at Arlecchino said that clowns should expect resistance to what they did. Not everyone understands the nature of the art, they'd said in lectures and seminars and departmental meet 'n greets, and there will be consequences for it. Picard personally thought that was bullshit, and that people needed to grow up. The clowns and the townies shared a world where men got breast implants and mothers got private school tuition money for tattooing corporate logos on their foreheads and aging rich models paid - PAID - to have poison injected into their stupid faces. Clowns shouldn't have been able to compete with all that. And yet, somehow they did...