Review of 'Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Have you ever been on a dating site? Have you ever received messages from people so completely insane you wondered if they were for real? These stories are about them.
There's usually very little plot involved in each story. Sometimes they're only a few pages. Most of the stories about women, but they're not pretty, or sociable, or well adjusted, and some of them aren't even particularly nice. Whether they're being boiled alive, hosting a colony of ants in their bones, being an assistant to a rorschach image of a model, or illegally defrosting a criminally insane mother in a spaceship, you can't begin guess to at their mental state, only gasp in amazement as they happily consider themselves sane and balanced.
There's a couple of writers I know of who pull this off -- Kelly Link, Kathe Koja. I don't recommend them to everyone, but if you like something …
Have you ever been on a dating site? Have you ever received messages from people so completely insane you wondered if they were for real? These stories are about them.
There's usually very little plot involved in each story. Sometimes they're only a few pages. Most of the stories about women, but they're not pretty, or sociable, or well adjusted, and some of them aren't even particularly nice. Whether they're being boiled alive, hosting a colony of ants in their bones, being an assistant to a rorschach image of a model, or illegally defrosting a criminally insane mother in a spaceship, you can't begin guess to at their mental state, only gasp in amazement as they happily consider themselves sane and balanced.
There's a couple of writers I know of who pull this off -- Kelly Link, Kathe Koja. I don't recommend them to everyone, but if you like something bitter and sour tasting, you'll like this.