📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never knew love until I became a mother./I was gentle and meek as a maid,but now I am a fierce lioness.” Bacchae is sadder than I remembered. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not bored.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. The hearsay./The hypothesis of your body:/a perfectly measured cake.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚

📚 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from “A prayer no one wants to”: “But you smiled when you traced my name in your inventory & I unspooled, fled my tethers, reached so far into the sun no one could find me.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from “I.vi.”: “You have read about the cats of a far planet, how the tamers/will poke with a wooden sword until the animals lean on hind legs/in a kind of stance. Never you.” Sexy and creepy. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 6/31 WOLF DAUGHTER by Amy Watkins. Excerpt from “sixteen”: “It was my voice she wanted,/as I wanted her hair under my chin,/her changing self held this close/for what instinct tells us could be the last time.” More monstrous women, more metamorphoses. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 5/31 [RE]CONSTRUCTION OF THE NECROMANCER by Hannah V. Warren. Excerpt from “Forgetting More Than I Thought I Did”: “I want to be flesh & warm & unscathed/but skin bruises easier than exoskeleton” ♥️ monstrous women #TheSealeyChallenge