Bad Houses

Stintzi (My Volcano) offers a fantastical collection of short stories, transporting listeners to surreal and grimly humorous worlds. Here they will find a doctor who stumbles upon a morally fraught cure for the Ebola virus, a college student who grapples with losing body parts each summer, Midas’s hairdresser who fights to conceal a secret, and a young girl who becomes entranced by the trolls tending her father’s pumpkin patch. Each story delicately balances humor and horror, vividly exploring the precariousness of existence. T’áncháy Redvers narrates, seamlessly shifting from intimate and introspective to detached. Their dynamic narrative approach mirrors the often-unsettling realities the characters inhabit while communicating Stintzi’s empathy for their characters. The collection is imbued with an undercurrent of humor, which offsets the stories’ more somber and macabre moments and makes the surreal elements feel grounded and relatable.