HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Thousand Sons armed and girded for war

armed and girded for war with the finest armaments and defences their arcane arts can provide

– 3x Skeleton Chariots

all but a privileged few live lives of poverty and desperation

it would be over

Ulik won’t stop swinging until his foes are smashed to dust

HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Thousand Sons armed and girded for warFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction [These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.Roxane Gay In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to womens memories and hunger and desire. I couldnt put it down.Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction,