A review by lelex
Awayland by Ramona Ausubel
4.0
I really enjoyed these short stories. They were intense and a little dicey but so different in tone and topic both. My favorites were "You Can Find Love Now" and "The Animal Mummies Wish to Thank the Following."
"They were alive and together and God, whichever god was theirs, had shaken this day out like a crisp sheet for them to lie down on."
"High school showed up and she started smoking and watched every meteor shower for four years."
"The problem is not her affliction, which is painless and possible to remedy. The problem is that her body was once a house where her daughter lived. The problem is that the two of them lived there together."
"Will they become crocodiles or hens? Surely, when the egg mummies finally crack, it will be a god who has broken them."
"They were alive and together and God, whichever god was theirs, had shaken this day out like a crisp sheet for them to lie down on."
"High school showed up and she started smoking and watched every meteor shower for four years."
"The problem is not her affliction, which is painless and possible to remedy. The problem is that her body was once a house where her daughter lived. The problem is that the two of them lived there together."
"Will they become crocodiles or hens? Surely, when the egg mummies finally crack, it will be a god who has broken them."