While the twenty-nine stories in City of Mazes bring to mind Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and Kafka, they are clearly the product of a powerful and distinct new voice. With their imagery of cruelty and self-victimization, of blood and violence, sex and love, Hendershot's stories are shocking and unsettling: we wander with fragile narrators, trapped within a nightmare world where ritual and symbol slowly evolve into an alternate view of sanity.