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272 pages, Hardcover
First published March 7, 2023
From Section I:
Morte de Smudgie – 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 - Nell’s poetic ode to her dead cat. Loved the writing and ending in this one.
From Section II:
Impatient Griselda - 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 – Loved the unexpected narrator of the story, and loved their narrative style even more.
Metempsychosis, or, the Journey of the Soul - 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 – A snail’s soul somehow latches itself to a human body and tries to get used to this new “shell”. Is that imaginative or what! I loved how the title doffed a hat at Kafka’s Metamorphosis, but has the process exactly in reverse.
Death by Clamshell - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – Hypatia speaks to us from the afterlife, wow!!! The only 5 star story for me. Brilliant!
Other notable mentions were ‘The Dead Interview’, ‘Widows’, and ‘Wooden Box’, each with 4 stars.
"why must i suffer? the ultimate puzzle. that is what it is to be human, i suppose: to question the terms of existence."