'I Want to Show You More,' Jamie Quatro Amid all this grief, Quatro often adds a confessional undercurrent of spirituality to her stories, with several of her characters struggling with larger questions of fate and God's role within the chaos and disappointments of their day-to-day lives. The second story, "Decomposition: A Primer for Promiscuous Housewives," details the aftermath of the lust-driven liaison when the man's body shows up in the wife's bed that she shares with her husband. In "Ladies and Gentlemen of Pavement," the author invents a world of running, where competitors must wear statues of varying sizes and weights, often with phallic protrusions, while racing long distances. The crowd shimmers and slips beside me like a river - glorious, glorious - and I see the bare kicking feet of babies in strollers, the wide milky eyes of children holding parents' hands, balloons bobbing above their heads like bright translucent marbles. [...] hearing the whir of the wheelchair coming up the driveway, Quatro writes from Lindsey's perspective as she arrives at a classmate's pool party with her mother, she felt the heavy drag in stomach, the disgust. Not for her mother, really, but for parts of her, the things that were changed: the pasty skin, the crazy hats she wore, the latest tattoo ...