My Name Is Norman Bates, I'm Just A Normal Guy

I'm reading a short story collection called The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot (which he or somebody apparently sent me as an ARC back in '06 -- Ryan, if you're reading, sorry about that; 2006 was not a good year). I think this might be the kind of thing people mean when they talk about "slipstream." The stories are strange, sometimes funny, sometimes surreal. I like them.

But in the editorial letter -- which is bound into the ARC, otherwise I probably would have lost it ages ago -- I found per