Just two little snippets from this gem, about a (rich) boy named Oliver and his seashell named Shell:
"I came to you so you wouldn't be lonesome."
"I'm never lonesome with Shell. You think the
intimacy thing will be all right, then ?"
"I sure do doubt it, but it's worth a try,"
Brenda Frances said. "For me, you're the likeliest
jackpot in town. Where else would I find such a
soft head with so much money attached ?"
"We read a seduction scene in a book once, "
Oliver said.
also in this story
The dentist left, and he never did return to
his job or to his home. It was later heard of him
that he had first abandoned dentistry and then life.
is a story a Lafferty fan would like. 
are short stories, that are either really boring or just lesser variations of a recurrent theme.