"To read Robert Scotellaro's microfictions is to continually have a smile on your face, marveling at his humor, his wit, his inventiveness with language and story. These quick hits slap you awake with their high-wire cleverness - the hitman who spends his evenings reading to the blind, the nun with the prison tattoo, the man who visits his ex-wife in a lion's cage, the sewer worker who reinvents his life, the "dudes" in the House of Pancakes discussing infinity, high on LSD. Sheer delight!"- Charles Rammelkamp, author of A Magician Among the Spirits and Presto "Quick Adjustments, Robert Scotellaro's luminous new collection of micro-stories, demonstrates the author's unparalleled gifts for fine-grained detail and razor-sharp comedic irony, the quintessential features of the finest compressed narrative literature. In richly concise stories that range from the confessions of a failed, self-doubting fire-walker, to the fractured legerdemain of a would-be magician who sports a purloined cape and monocle, the vivid narratives in this masterful collection - sometimes bawdy, sometimes melancholy - remind us that the transcendent is often based in the commonplace and that the saddest tales of human frailty are frequently also the most comedic."- Brad Rose, author of Lucky Animals and No. Wait. I Can Explain. "I dare you to find another writer who can wow you in micro like Robert Scotellaro can, from startling starts - "He sat with his naked feet in the baby pool, a rifle on his lap, and waited for the bear" - to perfectly finessed finishes - "A snowman gaining way too much weight." In Quick Adjustments, Scotellaro deftly magics his characters onto and off of the page, leaving us marveling at their leaps and contortions. A couple who adopt monsters. A family whose backyard is pocked with craters. A one-eyed collector of dented breastplates. Scotellaro's stories are peopled by characters flying dangerously through life who we pray will somehow hit the net."- Lynn Mundell, author of Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us; editor of Centaur "In Quick Adjustments Robert Scotellaro proves once again his mastery of the short form. In the smallest spaces these tiny stories resonate with power and longing."- Sandra Arnold, author of The Bones of the Story; Where the Wind Blows