Wild failure : stories / Zoe Whittall.

Half-pipe -- Wild failure -- More holy -- Oh, El -- A patch of bright flowers -- This is Carrie's whole life -- The sex castle lunch buffet -- I need a miracle -- I'm still your fag -- Murder at the Elm Street Collective House.

In "Oh, El" a dominant woman can't 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 girl's 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.