TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. Grand Stand-In' is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies stand-ins' for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in Blowing Up on the Spot', a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.