I know I have sung this writer's praises before but you have to realize he is a near-genius wordsmith. Here are some plum quotes from a Bookslut Interview he did in 2006:

"My characters seem to have involuntarily disimagined the differences between the sexes or between the standard categories of affection, but they cut me in on their hearts only so far before sinking back into the sentences and typography they spirited forward from. They rarely point to anything definite in my life or manage any likeness to people whose passages in life I might have been a party to."

 "I would hate to know exactly where and when my stories are set, in what suburbial latitudes those dark days keep coming. My characters seem bent on piecing themselves out of any big picture, and I have to honor their wish. I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions."

I'm also curious about your abiding interest in the human arm.

"As far as arms go, I think they're the one part of the body that tends to get short shrift in fiction, even though they're the place where the trouble between people usually gets it start."

At this point he has two short story collections out: Stories in the Worst Way and I looked Alive. Give'um a whirl.