Machado is very exciting author to read or to listen to. The stories in this collection are weird, artful, and amazing. "Especially Heinous" gives an odd, disjointed, disturbing view of the popular TV show Law and Order: SVU. Episode titles are followed by synopses that give a fun-house-mirror continuity to the show, with alternate characters, absurdly grisly crimes, and victims that literally haunt the officers. "The Resident," tells of a writer who must defend her work against verbal attacks, self-doubt and mutilated bunny corpses. The author plays with your sympathies and expectations masterfully.
Reading this shortly after I read Saunder's Tenth of December gave me such a sense of happy wonder at the writers and their store that we are lucky enough to encounter.
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