Melanie Grace and Grissom in “A Little Murder”

My first IOLP convention -- I walk in, see 200 Dwarfs staring back at me and what goes through my head? "There's no way I look like these people." I ran.

Grissom

But you went back.

Eventually. I guess I realized it's nice to see eye-to-eye with someone.

Grissom

Mm.

I get the impression that's a little tough for you. "The freaks have looked at her in a secret way and tried to connect their eyes with hers as though to say, we know who you are. We are you."

Close. Another southern writer. Carson McCullers.

Grissom

I think we look for the differences in each other to prove that we're not alone.

What's yours? Your difference? (Grissom is silent) Mine's the worst. Random gene. Anyone can have a dwarf. Sometimes I've even seen terror in average-size people's eyes. I remind them that their little carbon copies might not be such a copy after all.

Grissom

Well, mine's genetic, progressive and impossible to predict.

And hard to notice ... unless you tell someone.