A Hole Walked In is a thrilling piece of surrealist-gothic-body-horror short fiction, featuring a protagonist whose face just won’t stop bleeding. Following writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Helen Oyeyemi, A Hole Walked In traverses the feminist Weird and leaves a red trail in its wake.
Excerpt:
Four days bleeding. Feels like fewer. I stand before a dying Hollister inside a cryptfreeze mall. Bleeding not of man or moon but face, in rivulets, so far only from my eyes and nose and mouth. A giant shirtless sepia man and his swimsuited girlfriend eye my shivering body, welcoming customers inside. Blood runs from my left nostril to my lip, meeting and then dripping from my chin.
A Hole Walked In is a thrilling piece of surrealist-gothic-body-horror short fiction, featuring a protagonist whose face just won’t stop bleeding. Following writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Helen Oyeyemi, A Hole Walked In traverses the feminist Weird and leaves a red trail in its wake.
Excerpt:
Four days bleeding. Feels like fewer. I stand before a dying Hollister inside a cryptfreeze mall. Bleeding not of man or moon but face, in rivulets, so far only from my eyes and nose and mouth. A giant shirtless sepia man and his swimsuited girlfriend eye my shivering body, welcoming customers inside. Blood runs from my left nostril to my lip, meeting and then dripping from my chin.