In a city on the edge of the continent - in a place where the real and the surreal melt in a foggy fondue and everything is possible - on streets where homeless people get heckled by defunct Roman Emperors, where lovers tell their futures by deciphering tattoos and Death is just one of many tenants barely making a living out of transient hotel, in such a city, what would it take surprise someone?Anders Flagstad's new collection of short stories and novellas - Spare Parts - is an answer of sorts and San Francisco is the city, of course. Spare Parts is book one of series - Principal Parts - a set of interconnected books and characters about San Franciscans and how they got that way and what they do to stay that way and where they expect to go with all this stuff they're doing.