a collection of short stories featuring an extraordinary amount of body horror, bewildering and sinister uncanniness, sex (regular), sex (deranged), cannibalism (garden variety), cannibalism (unconventional), all manner of transformations, the dissection of oneself (emotional), the dissection of oneself (physical), and profound airborne mothman smashing, among other things, all lovingly and tightly packaged in a bubble wrap of queerness.
my thoughts on this as a whole, in short, are: it fucked. i am a person who tends to struggle with short stories - i find it difficult to find them engaging, they often feel pointless to me and give me nothing to dig my teeth into. i did not have those issues with this at all. with the exception of the last story in the collection, which, full disclosure, i skipped due to distressing animal content, i had a great time. i preferred some stories more than others, of course, but the entire collection felt beautifully honest, it was messy both physically and emotionally, it was gritty and unabashedly raw.
i absolutely recommend this, 🦷🦷🦷🦷
big huge gooey thanks to cursed morsels for sending me a review copy 💚
🐺lupus in fabula will be available on january 13th from cursed morsels press🐺
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