The Melancholy of Anatomy is a debut collection of stories, each one based on some part of the body or the result of a bodily function. Titles include: “Egg,” “Heart,” “Sperm,” “Phlegm,” “Hair” and “Fat.” Rather than be specific to the surreal book, I wanted to use 17th- and 18th-century anatomical drawings, which are already suitably bizarre, to create a sort of Gray’s Anatomy from an alternate world.