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A review by brandonadaniels
Your Body is Not Your Body by Alex Woodroe
5.0
This was one of the first short story collections I have managed to make it all the way through. I often find that short stories feel like first attempts at ideas for longer work, but that was almost never the case here. It is a varied collection of stories with a lose them of weird body horror. I highly recommend it for fans of the genre. Highlights include stories about zombies, witches, serial killers, cyborgs, a centaur, and a dead gods, almost all of which are not what you are expecting.
Notes for myself with ratings.
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The flensing lens: 3
tonsilstonepunksplatter666!: 5 - crazy
High maintenance: 3
The infinite being: 3
Brother Maternitas: 4 - weird bennedetta
The same thing happened to Sam: 4
The ballad of the pest: 5 - something in the walls
Playing house: 3
Hybrid: 3
Cholesterol-Mononoxide: 3
Why we keep exploding: 5 - high school bully with magic
We’ve been trying to reach you: 4
Lost in reincarnation: 4 - octopus. Short but sweet
Because My Mother Tells me so: 3 - the zombie one. Weird, quirky, and funny, but it doesn’t completely come together.
Seaflowers: 5 - short, but incredibly well written. Revisit
Fencing plate: 4 - fun. Magic spells
Gender Envy: 3 - funny poem. Visceral
Rest my head - not for me
Devine Carcass: 4 - we only find them when they’re dead
Chronoplasty: 3 - centaur gender surgery
#MotherMayhem: 3 - bone hand
The lives of scavengers: 5 - zombie sad boy- well written
The simulacrum: 3 - Frankenstein
The roots they pull: 3 - hedge
Stench: 4 - bones
Pearl Diver: 4- buzzard
Tiny magic: 5- witch
Notes for myself with ratings.
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The flensing lens: 3
tonsilstonepunksplatter666!: 5 - crazy
High maintenance: 3
The infinite being: 3
Brother Maternitas: 4 - weird bennedetta
The same thing happened to Sam: 4
The ballad of the pest: 5 - something in the walls
Playing house: 3
Hybrid: 3
Cholesterol-Mononoxide: 3
Why we keep exploding: 5 - high school bully with magic
We’ve been trying to reach you: 4
Lost in reincarnation: 4 - octopus. Short but sweet
Because My Mother Tells me so: 3 - the zombie one. Weird, quirky, and funny, but it doesn’t completely come together.
Seaflowers: 5 - short, but incredibly well written. Revisit
Fencing plate: 4 - fun. Magic spells
Gender Envy: 3 - funny poem. Visceral
Rest my head - not for me
Devine Carcass: 4 - we only find them when they’re dead
Chronoplasty: 3 - centaur gender surgery
#MotherMayhem: 3 - bone hand
The lives of scavengers: 5 - zombie sad boy- well written
The simulacrum: 3 - Frankenstein
The roots they pull: 3 - hedge
Stench: 4 - bones
Pearl Diver: 4- buzzard
Tiny magic: 5- witch