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A Soft Spot in the Earth's Skull Sarah Elder Hale with which the speaker directlyJacob Snodgrass returns with his second collection of short stories, following the acclaimed A Sock Full of Holes (2014). A Soft Spot in the Earth's Skull includes nine finely crafted stories, at turns hilarious and terrifying, with a pitch perfect ear for dialogue of stunted characters clawing their way through life. "Cloudy Piss" follows two roommates as they solve the mystery of the disappearance of the neighborhood cats and their own culpability