I think of my own apartment in Ybor City, where the cockroaches wear tiny suits of armor and the upstairs neighbor practices the tuba at 3 AM. “Ma’am,” I say, pulling a Ziploc bag of Goldfish crackers from my purse, “in Florida, the house isn’t the thing that’s haunted. You are the thing that haunts the house.”
It examines the manipulation of power within institutional settings and the psychological dynamics of exploitation. tampa alissa nutting sample
I drive back over the Howard Frankland Bridge, the bay below me the color of a dirty aquarium. I roll down the window and let the wind eat my hair. Another soul tucked into a stucco coffin. Another commission check for a woman who teaches tenth-grade English and thinks about her students’ fathers during third period. I think of my own apartment in Ybor
Nutting uses the extreme nature of the story to critique societal double standards, particularly how the media and the public often perceive and react to instances of female-on-male abuse differently than other forms of predation. I drive back over the Howard Frankland Bridge,