A Small Town for Its Size

About the Book

Stifled by their upbringing in small-town Texas, Chaz and Kat yearn for escape, for a chance to explore other ways of thinking, being, dreaming. Sadly, their trajectories carry them to separate states and entirely different career paths. When they reunite ten years later in the tidepools of Houston's underground, there's not enough space in Space City to rebuild their abandoned relationship. But there's no harm in trying—or is there? Follow the wandering thoughts of sleepy, introspective engineer Chaz, and the wry insights of insatiable, insomniac performance artist Kat as they pry at the strands of love's Gordian Knot. Sail the turbulent waters of the Houston art scene. Sop up the cultural gumbo of the Texas Gulf Coast. Straddle the meridians of desire and necessity, art and science, male and female, urban and pastoral, freedom and responsibility, classical wisdom and new pragmatism—always in conflict, always seeking reconciliation.

About the Author

David B. Collins was born in 1962 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He spent his childhood in New Jersey, Southern California, and suburban Houston. His time at Rice University got him hooked on city life and unconventional wisdom; his pastoral side emerges when he visits relatives in rural Connecticut. In 2012, the Green Party of Texas nominated David to run for United States Senate; he did not win that race. David currently lives inside Loop 610 and sometimes hangs out with performance artists.