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Somnambulist #3 40 pages, 1/2 legal, copied (4 oz) * OUT OF STOCK *

Picking up where the last issue left off, we are now treated to Martha's own series of employment of late. When we begin she cleans houses with a particularly drama laden company and has plenty of time to spend with her thoughts. "I found that house cleaning services like the one I worked for, contrary to assumption, attract no busy, affluent snobs but an unusual amount of anal and underemployed people with delusional standards of perfection." On that note, she eventually quits and becomes a deli worker in an organic grocery store serving many of the same clients. Another entry is about being a mental health therapist , being a rogue liason to psych patients to steady them. There are many stories of patients who were particularly interesting and worth recalling if not just to wonder if they were pulling a fast one by living in the mental health ward when they seemed to be perfectly competent other than when they were being reviewed. Throughout the text are interspersed notes from managers with ridiculously petty requests "take only one piece of candy", "don't flush the toliet with your foot", "take pride in cleaning the deli", and so on.

 
Hey, when is issue #4 coming out??? Your fans are waiting... Scott Erickson
Somnambulist rocks! The stories and perspectives come together to make such an eerie whole. Great Stuff. Willem
I thoroughly enjoyed somnambulist #3 and am patiently awaiting #4...? Smith
Remind me never to leave a neurotic note in the vacinity of this woman, she'll print it! A friend sent me this zine and I loved it, thanks to Microcosm I can enjoy the rest. Martha Grover, you are hilarious! David Bigley, U.K.
Lots of fun and technically excellent. There's something about Ms.Grover's lo-tech format combined wth her obviously refined and articulate writing style that's very charming. Issue #2, the interviews with her grandfather about all of the jobs, over several decades, that he just up and walked off from is very funny and surprisingly touching. Good stuff. anonymous
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