Skinflint by
Once upon a time, in a land destroyed by unfettered capitalism, rugged individualism, and toxic masculinity, where a person’s worth is literally a person’s worth, a narrator tells the tale of a bear of a man, felled by the forces he himself has promoted. Lovers scrounge for post-coital sustenance, neglected girls hunt for a prize to justify their care, and a son challenges his father for his life’s savings....
Once upon a time, in a land destroyed by unfettered capitalism, rugged individualism, and toxic masculinity, where a person’s worth is literally a person’s worth, a narrator tells the tale of a bear of a man, felled by the forces he himself has promoted. Lovers scrounge for post-coital sustenance, neglected girls hunt for a prize to justify their care, and a son challenges his father for his life’s savings. Skinflint is a nihilistic fairy tale about surviving a world that values a person only for the coins in her pocket and the meat on her bones.