Horses All Over Hell: Stories

Horses All Over Hell follows the twin tensions of Martys drinking and Joannas newfound religious sobriety--in a small Idaho city on the Snake in the early nineties. In Starlings Marty and Aunt Darlene enter Joannas bedroom with a sack of beer late at night seeking to revive her old drinking self. They Work at Night features Martys escalating drinking. Also presented is Joannas intense new friendship with an artist named Lucy. In Sending Those People Home ten-year-old Cory laments that his mom isnt like the other church mothers. He keeps her best photographs under his bed. Despite this familys troubles and whatever their fate they ache for each other and make their own often poignant gestures toward love.