Tag: Christy Crutchfield

  • Haunted Passages: “Booger Hill,” a short story by Christy Crutchfield

    Haunted Passages: “Booger Hill,” a short story by Christy Crutchfield

    Tess is Eve under her coat. She made the costume last year, three felt leaves sewn strategically onto a tan bodysuit. She’s just come home from the grocery store, but I nudge her back into the car. “Where are we going?” she says. I put a bottle of wine in one cup holder, a bag…

  • How to Catch a Coyote, a novel by Christy Crutchfield, reviewed by Gabino Iglesias

    How to Catch a Coyote, a novel by Christy Crutchfield, reviewed by Gabino Iglesias

    The strange thing about Christy Crutchfield’s debut novel, How to Catch a Coyote, is not that it’s beautiful, but that it manages to be beautiful despite coming from a cesspool of weird encounters, profoundly uncomfortable moments, familial turmoil, unspeakable secrets too dirty to forget, pain, loss, and the down-and-out atmosphere that permeates the underbelly of…