Ears

Disgraced former teacher Mr. Morning Gun survives on the margins, earning cash by checking on vacant homes waiting to be sold. His work is simple: keep the pipes flowing, keep the houses move-in ready. Then he arrives at the Messner House. When a confrontation turns deadly, Morning Gun is saved by the ghost of a missing child—a girl in lavender footie pajamas who has never truly left her family's home. What begins as a rescue soon becomes something far stranger. The girl is fiercely protective of the house, and anyone who threatens to occupy it meets a violent end. As Morning Gun becomes the sole living person welcome within its walls, he finds himself drawn deeper into the house's history, its desires. A haunting story of belonging, isolation, and the dangerous pull of home, Ears is Stephen Graham Jones at his most intimate and unnerving.