Reviews - Your Body is Not Your Body

132 reviews for:

Your Body is Not Your Body

Alex Woodroe

4.08 AVERAGE

biobeetle's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Content Warnings

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