Dust Storm: Stories from Lubbock

As a monster dust storm descends up Lubbock in conservative West Texas, this collection of stories takes us behind closed doors to reveal secrets and hidden desires of ten people. A teenage patient in a clinic describes how he got his idea for suicide from watching Rachael Ray. A woman finds photos on her husband’s iPad that changes her life forever. A young man experiences a repressed memory from his senior year of high school. A Latina takes revenge on an unfaithful spouse. Two Mormon kids sit outside the local temple in silence, waiting to be taken away. These and other episodes make up one day in Lubbock—where “churches stick out of neighborhoods like prairie dog mounds and ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ is a way of life for everyone.”