Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux

In “Mouth,” Stacy Elaine Dacheux explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey. It is excerpted from “Back to Abstraction,” a short film Dacheux made with friends.

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Stacy Elaine Dacheux's work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, presented at Radio Picture Show, and published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Most recently, she was a special guest on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!. For more on her whereabouts visit www.stacyelaine.com.

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