Tightly knit, these five stories weave an unholy melange of revenge and ultimate kindness-a Frankenstein tale, vignettes wired together, spanning a thousand years of language, birth, cruelty, justice, and incest.
Best American Short Stories nominee and Pushcart nominee, Russell Helms, holds a lectureship in English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of two novels Fade (2019), The Ground Catches Everything (2015), and a novella, Sympathy (2022).
