Queen of Teeth

Decent body horror novella with a lot of queer subtext. I think it tries to be about too many things and doesn't end up having coherent thoughts about any of them (transhumanism, being trans and beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, trauma from complicity with a dehumanizing corporation), but it's pretty sick when a lesbian turns into the monster from Carrion and eats Newark.

it should've been better if it were even shorter, in my opinion. i didn't really care about the romance and i came for the horror aspect of it but even that didn't really deliver. overall, it's alright, just not my thing.

For the first time in her life, everyone wanted to find her. Everyone cared. They wouldn't look to her when she used to scream, but now that she was the cause of screaming, suddenly everyone gave a damn.

This was some of the best body horror fiction I've read, and I loved how queer it was and how it was sad and sweet and funny at times (any man who forces you to watch Fight Club and then complains that you “just don't get it” afterwards is not to be trusted) and again, it was just absolutely yucko. But also kind of beautiful? 3.5 toothy tentacles out of 5, rounded up.