Slug and Other Stories Style:Paperback Pain Survey invites the reader

Pain Survey invites the reader to find kinship with doves nesting in pockets formed by shelling and homesick and captive crocodiles' refusal to participate in gladiator contests

Ex-military

and Cookie—through five connected short story comics that follow these young women through the ups and downs of their daily lives in the Bronx

airy and visceral

Forward is gripping tale of resilience and redemption—and a reminder that heroism is

Slug and Other Stories Style:Paperback Pain Survey invites the readerBy: Megan Milks A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories slip and slide between genresfrom video games to fan fiction, body horror to choose your own adventureas characters cycle through giddying changes in gender, physiology, species, and identity. Collapsing boundaries between bodies and forms, these fictions