Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses by Liz Duffy Adams

Four late nights, five lost souls, one poodle gone Elvis. Above an after-hours club in an urban art slum, a painter loses control of her brush, a romance writer loses control of her heroine, an ESL teacher loses control of the to-be verb, a neighborhood activist turns into a migratory sea bird -- and a photographer called Jerry is not what he seems. A dark rhapsodic comedy about the perils of living by formula.