Dust: Short Stories
Dupcak, Amy In this debut collection, Amy Dupcak dives headfirst into the rocky waters of youth. Exploring themes of alienation, longing, self-destruction and ultimately self-awareness, characters attempt to find meaning and form connections via sex, art, drugs, bathtubs, apple seeds, a cardboard dreamachine, and an aloe vera plant. In "Ten Days, " a pothead bike messenger squats in the hip downtown apartment of a girl he doesn't know, which begins a stra...