To read Steps is to experience the thrill and disgust of real human emotion, to see the absurdities at the heart of all relationships revealed under the spotlights glare. --- TONY O'NEILL (From the introduction to Steps) Hussy treads the same broken path that Messrs Bukowski and Fante have walked before him...Yet, he has a distinct poetic voice, a voice made his own. --- SUSAN TOMASELLI (Dogmatika) Steps' narrator faces a career filled with empty-headed liberals, a boarding-house full of grotesques, a girlfriend who can't stand kissing him and a brain that won't let any of it rest. But maybe - maybe - there's another lesson for a teacher to learn. Available exclusively in this limited edition chapbook and set before SK#1's Tara and SK#3's Wilson, Steps charts the origins of Hussy's days as a college and university lecturer.