The Gifts of the Body the patients and the caregiver. The book contains ten short stories, the titles of each being associated with "gifts" which are various functions of the body, both physical and emotional: sweat, wholeness, tears, skin, hunger, mobility, death, speech, sight, hope, and mourning. The caregiver experiences each "gift", as he/she deals with patients who have AIDS, showing the different shared relationships in each case. Each patient is a distinct case, differing in terms of age, financial situation, attitude toward the illness etc., showing the reader that this disease affects all types of people. The book is written in the "no-frills style"
The Fear of Wages a parody of a contemporary film, The Wages of Fear (1953). Wallace Greenslade initially announces that title as ""Le Salaire de la peur", meaning "The Wages of Fear", or in English...". Sellers then announces, as Willium ("Mate"), "The Fear of Wages! Ohhh!". The plot is loosely based on the plot of the film, "The Wages of Fear"; transporting nitroglycerin by trucks. Burma, 6th of March, 1956: Colonel Neddie Seagoon of the 4th Armoured Thunderboxes reads a telegram that Major Bloodnok failed to show him in 1945 because he thought it was a practical joke. The telegram states that World War