"If you''re interested in the way we live now, read these funny, destabilizing, and superbly crafted stories."--Edmund White
In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue. With "ONJ.com," a young woman in advertising decides she wants a gay man in her life, but the good-looking and fast-talking gay coworker she meets isn''t as pleasant and "fun" as she had hoped. In "Dunford," a lonely, aging architect with a suppressed fascination for female escorts decides impulsively to take the opportunity of his wife''s absence to set up a date. Sadly for Dunford, he realizes too late that his escort doesn''t share his penchant for masturbation in car washes. And "Nightwalking" centers on a woman sleepwalker whose mother''s death frames the occasion for a rocky family reunion. You Are Not the One marks the auspicious arrival of an exciting new talent.