The title piece is the most engaging and original story in the whole collection. Its 40,000 odd words pack in a fair amount of black satirical horror. Of course there's a high monetary cost, and disregard of gender and ethics. For our hideous human vanity will do anything to procure a functional body. They've been waiting for a body for years.
Dark laughs begin to flow.
More the pity that there isn't enough of them. Patrick Welch often holds back from pushing the material into a right craziness. More weird logic for their story, rather than the one we're given. The latter is a quietly effective piece on loneliness and how society makes non persons of those it doesn't understand or wish to accommodate. For the character, diction and presence of the young girl narrator is almost innocently amoral, vivid and suggestively dense.