Love is a Fire

An anguished star hits his breaking point when a young journalist investigates his complicity in a scandal.

After an unbearably creepy negotiation with some skeevy car dudes, a mechanic has to fight off a demonic monster inhabiting her dream 1978 Camaro.

A very hungry woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can't pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza? Is there anything that can be worthy of pizza, aside from what the market has decided? Together the two decide that their only option is to become the pizza object themselves, to make each other into pizza, in order to become free.

A conman works his way into a lonely woman's home by posing as her long lost son.

This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they vent and commiserate over underacknowledged frustrations and unspoken desires.

The woman wonders what her neighbors are doing to deserve so many gifts from the gods. Stone blessings pile up on their altar while the woman receives so few. She has offered those same gods her food, time, and love. What more do they want? Do they want sex? Or something more? Perhaps a bit of flesh?

In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.

A seamstress tries to make her grandmother’s impossibly-narrow-waisted-heirloom dress fit. After it refuses to be altered, visions of her grandmother encourage her to alter herself instead.