Song for the Unraveling of the World | 
"When the medical purser asked us when we had last seen Rurik, we hesitated before responding. Not because we had something to hide, but because we did not know at what point he would, to a mind like hers, no longer be Rurik."
-"The Hole"
"She was older. Maybe she would die first. Maybe he‘d even get a few years to himself, eventually, three or four decades from now."
-"Shirts and Skins"
"It was like looking at his life through a smaller and smaller window. Like he was watching it but helpless to control anything. In the end, he couldn‘t help but think, it would be like she was having a relationship with some version of herself as he tapped his finger on a tiny but thick pane of soundproof glass, calling out silently for help."
-"Shirts and Skins"
""And there‘s another [holiday], where you look at yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.”
"Why would you do that?" I couldn‘t stop myself from saying.
"So that they can control you," she said. "You are saying, 'I do not want myself and so I am giving you the gift of me.' Or something like that.""
-"Sisters"
"We shared that odd intimacy that comes from living partly in one‘s own head and partly in another‘s."
-"The Second Door"
"They both had skin, but with an apple you could eat the skin, and with a banana you couldn't. You could peel a banana easily with your fingers; an apple you couldn‘t. To peel an apple of its skin, you needed a knife. A person was more like an apple than a banana. You couldn‘t peel a person easily with your fingers. With a person, you needed a knife. With a person, like an apple, you could eat the skin."
-"Born Stillborn"
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
This was a solid collection. Some things did start to feel a little repetitive after a while, and some of the stories felt like they ended too soon, but there was really only one story I didn‘t like. The rest were pretty good.
#catsoflitsy #Ember
Congrats on the litfluence milestone @SamanthaMarie ! Thanks for the giveaway!
Here are my three:
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
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pickThis is one of the best collections of horror and sci-fi stories that I have ever read. Seriously, pick this one up today. Each story is so dynamic, touching on human nature and the depth of the soul. I am leaving this collection and immediately devouring the rest of Evenson‘s bibliography.
