WRONG PEOPLE, by Jon Steinhagen

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Someone’s life is defined by a natural disaster. Someone else advertises along the expressway for a lover. Others populate an abandoned cathedral as they double down on their looksmaxxing. A psychic takes a much-needed break from demanding spirits; an average teenager can’t help but find new planets.

What’s wrong with people? What makes them wrong? And what’s so wrong about being wrong?

WRONG PEOPLE is ten tiny novels that dwell on the odd, off-putting people, places, and things, from a judgmental discount given to those who are lost in sadness, a pet food taster trying to find love, friends who purposely redirect traffic, and cursed prosthetic devices. And who can say? Sometimes, the wrong people…might be us.

JON STEINHAGEN is the author of The Hanging Artist and The Big Book of Sounds, the screenplay of the comedy feature Party Favors, many plays and musicals (Blizzard’67; The Teapot Scandals), and is a former resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists.