First published 2018
In these stories, bodies become battlegrounds for identity and survival. Teenage girls root themselves in soil, believing their true nature is botanical rather than human. A lover becomes fixated on the precise moment harp strings find their pitch. Prisoners in a brutal gulag devise schemes to outwit their sadistic warden. Mediums commune with spirits while churches develop appetites for flesh. Each character grapples with the vessel they inhabit and what it demands for survival. The stories move between the grotesque and the tender, exploring how people negotiate the gap between who they are and what their bodies allow them to become. Bodies transform, rebel, and hunger in ways that defy expectation.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, contemporary, magical-realism
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: body-horror, unreliable-narrator
225 pages · Kindle Edition · A Strange Object
Content warnings: body-horror, graphic-violence