Severance is a series of eight short stories, each with her poignant perspective and warped sense of humor: A woman in LA lives with her husband, children, and 100 ex-boyfriends.
A portal in a college professor’s closet leads to another world. A yeti and a human make love. In “Tomorrow,” an arm protrudes from an expectant mother’s vagina during her pregnancy.
In the suspenseful “Returning,” a married couple fly to the husband’s home country to attend a healing ceremony that involves being buried alive overnight, but they get separated at the airport.
It’s a haunting centerpiece to a surreal collection. —Emerson MaloneAs a theater nerd, what initially drew me to On the Rooftop was the hint that it was based on Fiddler on the Roof.