“What I like about you,” she said, “is your reactions. We laughed and talked and passed around the bottles. We drank stolen wine coolers in my room, on the vast expanse of my bed. My heart fluttered below my belly button, but I worried about daddy long legs and her parents finding us. I pulled up my shirt, she pulled up hers, and we just stared at each other. “I’m the dad, and you’re the mom,” she said. Her parents were upstairs we told them we were watching Jurassic Park. We lay down next to each other on the musty rug in her basement. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, Guernica, Tin House, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. In this collection Machado demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. The following is from Carmen Maria Machado’s collection, Her Body and Other Parties.
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