Lee Conell

1 week ago | chapter16.org | Erica Wright |Sean Kinch |Lee Conell |Ed Tarkington

In her new story collection Hellions, Julia Elliott embraces the grotesque, playing with a rich literary tradition and molding it into something wholly her own. These tales teem with supernatural creatures — demons, hags, changelings, and swamp apes — but it’s the humans who are most compelling. Hellions opens with “Bride” in which the nun Wilda flagellates and starves herself to purge her body of sin, specifically lust.