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Reviewed by Maria Beltran for Readers' Favorite
Working in a high-end restaurant kitchen on the South Beach of Ocean Drive, Miami, Florida, Theodore Hayes writes from experience. In his three short stories in Pussyville ala Carte, his inventive and cheeky brand of humor is also quite evident. In Pennies on South Beach, Olga, an Ukrainian woman working as a bartender in busy O’Malley’s Ocean Drive Miami Beach, flips a coin to ask about her future, but it is her past that will catch up with her. Her Terrible Sword centers on Anthony, who is waxing poetical about his far away Argentinian girlfriend Lupe. And in The Psychological Impairment of the Horoscope, Ana depends heavily on astrology in her budding relationship with George.
The stories in Pussyville ala Carte hinge on dating, love, and marriage, and in this collection Theodore Hayes displays his mastery of the real emotional landscape of a place like the South Beach, where pretty girls are everywhere and men spend their days lazing on the beach, but it is not something one would expect. This is because he chose to write about the people who live and work there, ordinary people like you and me who are living in an extraordinary place. From Pennies on South Beach to Her Terrible Sword, Hayes ably handles the switch from ironic to lyrical, but he is obviously most comfortable in his purposefully flat style in The Psychological Impairment of the Horoscope. All of the stories are set in Miami Beach and when Theodore Hayes depicts this special neighborhood, it is always with sensitivity and grace.
