siren stitches

A mid-thirties couple uses the internet to define and redefine their marriage. Marla struggles to sell her dead teenage sons Audi. A nine-year-old Bohra Girl from India has no control of a burgeoning body predetermined to suffer by other peoples hands. A family riddled with obscurities and lies lose everything and then a little more. A disparate woman cant stop the inner voices. A little boy goes to great lengths to engender a father figure. Brothers take comfort in each others demise. Braden comes home for Thanksgiving from college and finds an unexpected distraction from familial angst and ruination. Gender is confronted on a death bed and a secret adoption is revealed by an old man in a booth at Perkins. At the dinner table our parents one request Connie sat hunchback and tight-lipped growling at the bread rolls squinting at the glasses of lemonade and rearranging the silverware into an X. No one queried her thoughts or asked for an opinion. But I could hear her--screaming--smoothness you stupid mother fuckers is meant for those who havent yet been sliced apart. -- The Seconds after Living WoundsAt its heart siren stitches seeks to find inroads of belonging on a fitful path scattered with (dis)entanglements and (mis)applications.