"Day Out of Days: Stories" (Alfred A. Knopf, 282 pages, $25.95), by Sam Shepard: Images of severed heads recur throughout Sam Shepard's new collection of short stories, "Day Out of Days."
Several stories sprinkled throughout the collection deal with a man who finds a severed, talking head that asks to be carried to a nearby lake and thrown in.
Another story titled, "Timeline," is a list of dates followed by police-blotter occurrences of decapitations near the Mexican border.
A single-paragraph story titled, "These Recent Beheadings," bleakly states: "The body here, the head over there. And the mind …
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