Accidents-Adulterers -- Amateurs -- Ambulance Chasers -- Androids -- Animal Lovers-Ankle-biters -- Armchair Psychologists -- Backyard Astronomers -- Bad Apples -- Bargain Hunters-Blind Dates -- Queue Jumpers -- Bookies -- Boy Scouts -- Bridesmaids-Buns in the Oven -- Chiropractors in the Off-Hours -- Chosen Ones -- Collage Dropouts -- Colonels of Truth -- Control Freaks -- Couch Potatoes -- Day Traders -- Defectors from the Freudian camp-Detectives -- Dish Bitches -- Doodlers -- Doormats -- Employers -- Empty Nesters -- Entomologists -- Eulogists -- Expatriates-Extra Mouths to Feed -- Fall Guys -- Frequent Flyers -- Ghouls -- Grown-ups -- History Buffs -- House-Sitters -- Identical Twins -- Innocent Bystanders -- Jurors -- Kleptomaniacs -- Late Bloomers -- Lexicographers -- Little Bundles of Joy -- The Lovesick -- Matchmakers-Millionaires -- Missing Persons -- Narrators-Night Staff at the Haiku Infirmary -- Old Flames -- One-Night Stands -- Only Children -- Optimists -- Optometrists -- Oracles-Orderlies -- Organ Donors -- Ornithologists-Paper Boys -- Park Statues -- Penny-Pinchers-Perverts -- Petty Officers-Piano Tuners -- Players -- Ploughmen-Saints -- Shoulders to Cry on -- Sitting Ducks -- Snoops-Social Butterflies -- Stepmothers -- Steven -- Sticks in the Mud - Stockbrokers -- Suspects -- Sweethearts -- Test Pilots -- Tough Cookies -- Transplant Survivors -- Underdogs -- Werewolves - Winners -- Woolgatherers -- Woolgatherers - Xenophobes -- Zombies - Zygotes -- APPENDIX -- Last Words -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.