This Is My Body, Given For You
This Is My Body, Given For You by Heather Parry is a debut short story collection published by Haunt Publishing in May 2023. The book, written in English and spanning 192 pages, presents a series of fifteen stories that explore the complexities of the human body through various unsettling narratives.
Readers will encounter a range of characters and situations, including a girl facing a peculiar menstrual issue, a boy who embodies animalistic traits in his love for a nonhuman figure, and a girl who finds transformation through cannibalism. The collection delves into themes of exploitation, identity, and the physicality of existence, showcasing how the body can be altered and transcended. With vivid imagery and thought-provoking scenarios, this work invites reflection on the nature of bodily experiences and their implications.
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A girl suffering a bizarre menstrual aberration is exploited by those around her, including her father. A boy expresses his love for a nonhuman man by making himself animalistic. A girl abandoned by her community discovers the possibility of transmutation through cannibalism. A man struggles with his wife’s choices around her existence, and considers whether he should leave her alone in her semi-oblivion, or join her.
In This Is My Body, Given For You, Heather Parry places in our hands fifteen stories in which the body is something that can be changed, altered, and escaped from. With dripping blood, bruised tentacles, and seamed skin, Heather Parry’s debut short story collection will consume you.
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