Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collection One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist, winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He spent ten years painting houses in Michigan before getting his MFA from Bowling Green State University and his PhD from Western Michigan University. His stories have recently appeared in Pleiades, Smokelong Quarterly, Bat City Review, Juked, Cimarron Review, The Journal, and The Threepenny Review. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His website is dustinmhoffman.com.In This Room I Make Red
Outside it could be thirty below, but this room breathes sweat and work and bodies. We’re painting the McClatchys’ master bedroom dark red, a faux finish somewhere between marble and leather. Sexy as fuck. Rich people always want these deep reds smattered all over their huge houses, and I always wondered why...
