The Stench, The Stench

By Lucy

For our Juneteenth release, Lucy returns us to oil-country Texas during the Depression, where hard times have given a whole town its reason to gather.

From atop his father's shoulders, a boy watches a festivity that will become his grandson's inheritance—a memory carried for a lifetime, surfacing unbidden, refusing to fade.

"The Stench, the Stench" is a story about the brutal pastime at the heart of the American jubilee, and the way its smell lingers on the living long after the crowd has gone home.