Crawl Space and Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability

Crawl Space and Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability is a collection of stories about the fallout from limited maneuverability whether it be the horror inside the walls of a New York City apartment the firing of a professor on a college campus bullying in the basement of an orphanage the restraint a father feels reaching out to touch a youth the confinement inside jockey underwear the consolation of a typewriter over an unreported violence an actual hanging by boys after a church service the fatal end of a patients world following a hospital miracle the shyness of a classical pianist breached by a man named Ray Rice the drama inside a Madrid bullring the consequences of an old mans collapse at a urinal in Yokohama the rejection of the vegetarian Cain by God the torment of a pelican under a bridge in Mexico Presidents shooting bears or obsessing about scratches on a cherry table a preoccupation with curtains when preparing for a visitor how a house full of knickknacks replaces people the power of beets exposing sibling rivalry a predicted automobile accident enlarging the stunted lives of two lovers the claustrophobia over a book of Matisse art the triumph after the modest boasts of an actual stuntman the recollections of a stubborn liver in a frying pan the weekly ritual of Pop paddling young boys a pearl familys revenge for the horrors of World War II the secret life of a British aesthete in Japan or the results of reduced mobility inside an actual crawl space.