Mouth
Stories

this is a book about monsters and girls and girls who become monsters and monsters who become girls. it's also a book i really wanted to like. it has a weird eerie cover! it has weird eerie contents! it's filled with teeth and blood and sex and ghosts! i like books with all of these things.  in execut......more

STORY 1 : Dessication - ⭐⭐⭐ STORY 2: The fig tree - ⭐⭐.5 STORY 3: Leaving things - ⭐⭐ STORY 4: K - ⭐⭐.5 STORY 5: In the winter - ⭐⭐⭐ STORY 6: Anomaly -⭐.5 STORY 7: Lemon boy -⭐⭐⭐.5 STORY 8: Supergiant -⭐.5 STORY 9: Nip -⭐⭐ STORY 10: Natalya -⭐ STORY 11: P......more

4.5 stars! Thematically cohesive re: "mouth" imagery and so creatively and imaginatively rendered. Favorite stories were "Leaving Things," which is a dystopian werewolf shit but classy and weird and dark, "K" which is a historically women's college campus story, "Lemon Boy" which is set in Somervill......more

These speculative stories are unsettling in the best way. They range from fully grounded in our world (a medical examiner autopsies her former lover) to completely out of this world (a woman on another planet learns she has been selected as a human sacrifice). The common thread running through these......more

Provocative, dark and jarring The author really went “there” with this collection of eleven short stories. I am not going to lie, some of the stories I read I really thought, “a wah gwan yasso?!” However, I loved how the author was able to write something fresh, engaging, jarring and raw. After ea......more