Slug and Other Stories

240 pages

English language

Published Feb. 3, 2021 by Feminist Press at The City University of New York.

ISBN:: 978-1-952177-84-2

(1 review)

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories slip and slide between genres--from video games to fan fiction, avant-garde theater to choose-your-own-adventure--as characters cycle through giddying changes in gender, physiology, species, and identity. Collapsing boundaries between bodies and forms, these fictions interrogate the visceral, gross, and absurd.

"This book is fucking weird," wrote Brit Mandelo in 2015. It's only gotten weirder since. Slug and Other Stories is a revised and expanded edition of a contemporary cult classic. Finally back in print, this collection is a testament to the messy anti-logic of queer feelings by a revelatory new voice.

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charli reviewed Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks

beautiful, twisted, phantasmagorical

4 stars

this collection broke me, in a beautiful way. Megan Milks writes with reverence and horror about the way unconscious desires take form, transmutate, transgress and twist. not every story is a winner, but even the ones that missed for me struck me with their immediacy, their presence of voice and life. trans literary fiction, with all raunchy violent tenderness of contemporary life. check this one out.