The Weather Within

'Before a sentence can ever be pure, original, or uncorrupted, the story has to survive the author trying to write it.

In this anthology, a child tries to make sense of a quiet domestic fracture through unspelled words. On a mezzanine floor, an adolescent suffocates under the weight of identity, gender expression, and maternal obsession. Across public cafés, midlife nostalgia collides with the slow cruelty of passing time, while an artist bleeds on stage to feed a crowd that only wants his i...