Armed with a cardboard halo, Larissa is out to save humanity. Or to at least make sense of a world where snakes swallow boyfriends, closet monsters write memoirs, and the downtrodden seek counsel at a shoe store. This book is a novel-in-collage, each story a track in the album of Larissa's Life. Larissa Takes Flight is the third book from Teresa Milbrodt, author of Bearded Women: Stories, and the novel The Patron Saint of Unattractive People.

Larissa Takes Flight

Milbrodt, Teresa

Reference

Pressgang

Fiction. Women's Studies. Disability Studies. A middle school teacher relies on eight interchangeable heads to cope with her job. A woman tries to negotiate life with her arthritis witch and her boyfriend's seizure elf. The Germanic goddess Berchta, tired of being a fearsome hag, shows up in a woman's apartment wanting to be flat-mates. In the fictional worlds depicted in INSTANCES OF HEAD-SWITCHING, sphinxes are kept as pets, unicorns are raised on ranches, and Sisyphus has escaped from Hades and is happily working as a bagger at a grocery store. But characters still struggle to pay bills, deal with cranky customers and bosses, and navigate life with partial vision, limited mobility, and chronic diseases. Focusing on themes of embodiment, disability, and economic insecurity, Teresa Milbrodt offers witty and inventive tales full of compassion for her cash-strapped, hard-luck characters. The collection includes stories originally published in Guernica, Strange Horizons, PANK, and other journals.

Instances of Head-Switching

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Shade Mountain Press

Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Welcome to the contemporary Freak Show! A woman trying to have a child has a parasitic twin, an extra lower torso, and set of legs named Bianca - should she have "Bianca''s Body" removed to improve her chances at conception? A bearded lady considers coming out of the closet about her hirsute nature, while carrying on a battle of wills with an overeating patron in "Mr. Chicken." A woman with four ears gets a chance to make extra money as the mascot of a tattoo parlour, and encounters a middle-aged, cookie-baking stalker who believes she is a sign that the end of the world is nigh. Meet the "freaks"-they''re mothers, wives, and lovers: all of them trying negotiate a world that is quicker to stare than sympathize.

Bearded Women: Stories

Genre Fiction

ChiZine Publications

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