num_pages: 240
description: Kill Marguerite and Other Stories collects thirteen risk-taking stories obsessed with crossing boundaries whether formal or corporeal. Narrative genres are giddily the Sweet Valley twins get stuck in a choose-your-own-adventure story; Mean Girls-like violence gets embedded within a classic video game. Protagonists cycle through a series of startling sometimes violent changes in gender physiology and even species occasionally blurring into other characters or swapping identities entirely. One woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and a Greek god impregnates a mans thigh with a sword. More than just a straightforward celebration of the carnivalesque though these fictions are deeply engaged both critically and politically with the ways that social power operates on and through queer bodies.
language: English
title: Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
publisher: Emergency Press