Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy

by Hailey Piper

Overview

Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine.

The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in "We All Scream". "The Law of Conservation of Death" dictates that a ghost pursue his prey across her every reincarnation. Superstitions thrive even in the distant future and across the stars when a colony shuttle mounts a witch trial in "Hairy Jack". And try to "Forgive the Adoring Beast" as it scavenges a world of dead gods for tokens of bloody affection.

Including two new short stories and a never-before-published novelette, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy digs deep inside us and clings to the beating nightmare heart you always knew was there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781990082016
Publisher:	Seventh Terrace
Publication date:	05/07/2021
Pages:	254
Sales rank:	588,159
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

Table of Contents

Feast for Small Pieces

The Law of Conservation of Death

Demons of Particular Taste

I'm Not a Chainsaw Kind of Girl, But

Candyland

Elf-Bride

Aggressive Mimicry

Seven Signs He Doesn't Love You

Crones in Their Larval State

Hairy Jack

Daisy

The Umbilical Chord

We All Scream

The Burning of the Blueberries

Jormungandr's Dance

Forgive the Adoring Beast

Among the Creatures of the Night

Recitation of the First Feeding

Editorial Reviews

"In Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Hailey Piper masterfully crafts a resolutely modern gothic, unearthing the rotten, the broken and the strangely beautiful. Piper wields incisive prose with empathy and deep intuition, carefully dissecting the monstrous bodies herein and spilling their stories onto the page. A compelling and essential collection."

- Laura Mauro, British Fantasy Award-winning author of Sing Your Sadness Deep

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