Intimate Traps

in progress

What does it mean to be intimate, to achieve intimacy with others, and how can individuals liberate themselves from the prison of possessiveness while also acknowledging the ways in which gaining a lover is like making a “catch?” Intimate Traps narrativizes the intertwining lives of six adults: Sky (a graduate art student in the final year of their degree program); Araceli (a Spanish immigrant and clean energy analyst); Bud (a faculty applicant to the Bardo College Art Department); Chad (a bartender who seems to be working every job in town); Mave (an editor at a successful literary press); and Luis (another art student at BCLA).

Word Count: 25-30,000…?