[who did it] Pocket Books, January, 1999; mass-market paperback.

[chance of gettin'] Can still find, but may have to order.

[the skinny] Contains the story, "Scripture Girl." No violence and respectably depicted sex? Even Lee has brains enough to step back from the hardcore when he’s trying to get into a mass-market anthology edited by a mega-best-selling author, Whitley Strieber. The result was “Scripture Girl” (not to be confused with “Scriptures,” one of the author’s most nihilistic pieces). “Scripture Girl” is one of Lee’s first stories that directly approaches religion. Existential guy meets Bible-thumping girl, in a bar, and they wind up makin’ bacon in the back seat of a clay-red ‘67 Chevy Malibu. The latter typo is Lee’s fault. “It was supposed to be a clay-red ‘76 Chevy Malibu, the same one in “The Wrong Guy,” but I missed it in the galleys. I used to drive a clay-red ‘76 Chevy Malibu. What a boat anchor.” Lee also claims that he got the idea for this story from a woman he met one night at the Ram’s Head Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland. But did he really get her into the back seat of that clay-red Chevy Malibu? “Hell, no,” Lee reveals.