Short stories, horror? speculative fiction? magic realism?
Great stuff.
"Inventory" slowly reveals itself to become a post apocalyptic story of a virus wiping out mankind told through the history of lovers of the narrator. The way this is slowly revealed is fantastic.
"Especially Heinous (272 views of Law & Order SVU)" is the one story I skipped. I didn't get it, it did not interest me.
"The Resident", about a woman going to a writers retreat, was intense. The madwoman trope, but intense. No, not "but", "and" intense.
"Difficult at Parties" has hints of Amy Hempel. Maybe just because it's a post-accident story. What happened never gets told but the narrator is broken and struggles.
My body is a haunted
house that I am lost in.
There are no doors but there are knives
and a hundred windows.
[Jacqui Germain]
god should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men
[Elisabeth Hewer]
