Drenched is published by Soft Skull Press, Inc. and
was released in February 2010. Buy the book now at
Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

In Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums,
two lovers accidentally create a love potion while
making a batch of Jell-O. An apartment is filled with
water as an act of gravity-defying devotion to an
acrobat. At turns blissful, absurd, sexy, and
devastating, Marisa Matarazzo’s stories don’t
just push the boundaries of love—they show
how very boundless it is.

These interconnected shorts take love to a new
level—another world, where a sex fever can sweep
a town and where sex acts are performed while
tied to the raised mast of a sailboat. Falling into
love, swimming, and drowning in it, the characters
often exist in places where land and water collide
and morph. A girl without hands is rescued from
the sea by an oil-rig worker. A boy transplants
a fish into the body of a menacing neighbor.
A woman on the rebound has an unexpected
encounter with an otherworldly water engineer.

Fusing magical realism and fantastical elements
with the heart of the here and now, Matarazzo
has established a singular style. As she shifts
effortlessly among startling plotlines and peculiar
characters, she celebrates the fluid sorcery of
love—in its ardor, its ugliness, all of its uncanny
and magnificent manifestations, she proclaims
love as the most wondrous magic of all.