Description

An autistic woman in a supportive housing community discusses the “domestic dispute” she had with her boyfriend by imagining their apartment as a literal glass house. A young girl plays with the sentient figurines in her family’s crèche while her mother’s infidelity unfolds in front of her brother, who’s come home for Christmas. An introverted young librarian is cornered by a local eccentric and that small, tense interaction fills her weekend with meaning.   The voice of a white settler reflects on chasing the Meskwaki tribe out of their historic territory, only to hide behind dismissive aphorism.  A diptych portrays a young man’s grief over two deaths, his great aunt and a blue-collar boy he had feelings for in high school.

These and others comprise MORE HELL, a collection of sometimes comic stories about the sadness of addiction and sex in a small Midwestern town.