My Pink and Black Heart

"My Pink and Black Heart" is a collection of short stories about sex, violence, aliens, and personal and planetary growth. Inside you'll find a girl who has to kill a home intruder and also heal herself of acne by discovering the toxins in dairy, a father who has a genius environmentalist delinquent son who keeps getting in trouble with the cops, one lady is a mental case until she gets therapeutically hypnotized and realizes aliens abducted her and healed her body, another lady gets rescued by a stalker serial killer who is in love with her, one kid stops being a drug dealer but is angry he's stuck in an ER with no money, one girl realizes she can raise animals from the dead, another lady has to feed her gross mom through a tube, but she gets to have sex with a neighborhood pool boy.
In all these stories the heroes triumph and grow while encountering trippy manifestations of reality.