This story by Diné writer Natanya Ann Pulley is dark, ethereal, and violent. Three things I enjoy in literature, though this story, or the whole collection, doesn’t seek to capitalize or glorify those aspects. The narrator here has been consumed by a cannibal and plays observer to the emotional turmoil that her consumer goes through. I’m in it all the way, perhaps like the narrator. The setting is tone and mood driven, nothing stable or concrete. The uncertainty of all this makes the story feel mythic and revelatory.
First published in Split Lip, and available to read online here. Collected in With Teeth, New Rivers Press 2019
A Personal Anthology 