The way we view human realtionships differs between historical times and between contemporaneous cultures and individual rsader preferences. Judgments of healthy and perverse, reasonable and foolish, romantic and cold, are examples of this. John Mullen's fiction focusses upon the ordinariness that appears within the eccentric. His recent novel, The Woman Who Hated Philosophers Swallow Tail Press, 03/31/2017, is an example.Hos stories include;  "The Coprological Vision of Judy Dallas," "The War on Terror," "Police Business", "Gone Dad," "Disarticulated Parts," "The Breast Center."