Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. What if, on a blisteringly hot Sunday morning in a New York City tenement building, as sirens scream outside and whirring helicopters dot the sky, the End Time begins? In Henry Flesh's bold, startling new novel, Stephen is an ill and unemployed proofreader to whom three initiates of a strange religious cult appear announcing that the archangel Michael is coming. Critical praise for Henry Flesh's Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel MASSAGE also applies here: Funny, tightly plotted, and just two shades darker than burnt coffee. Henry Flesh has crafted a fine and disturbing novel -- David Sedaris.