Wild Failure : Short Stories

In Wild Failure bestselling novelist Zoe Whittalls debut collection of poetic fiction contends with the meaning of desire for both intimacy and danger in a world that devalues queer femininity.

In Oh, El a dominant woman cant stop herself from toying with the tender heart of her co-worker. The title story, Wild Failure is a doomed love story between an agoraphobic and a wilderness hiker. In Half Pipe a teen girls heterosexual ambivalence results in chaos at a skate park. A group of idealistic roommates find themselves the subject of a true crime podcast in Murder at the Elm Street Collective House. In The Sex Castle Lunch Buffet a woman reflects on her brief stint at a 90s strip club after she learns of the death of a former client.

Whittalls characters navigate shame, attachment, and disconnection in this collection of outsider stories, which were inspired by the new narrative movement.