From Whitney Collins, the award-winning author of Big Bad, arrives a new collection of dark, derelict, and hilarious tales about—you guessed it—love. Ricky & Other Love Stories stars a troupe of losers, loners, and lovers, all a little bit lovesick and lovelorn. Among these characters are Dave, the miserable math teacher whose girlfriend travels to planet Venus for a midlife-crisis cure; Imogen, the sperm bank client, who cultivates the love she madly desires inside of her; and Aurora Flood, the coma survivor who is on a mission to plant a sacred seed from the Olive Garden. Blending literary fiction with elements of magical realism and horror, Ricky & Other Love Stories is at once political and personal, bitter and sweet, hilarious and humbling—ultimately, a lot like love.