The author has also inserted some meta-like asides into the narrative, which itself is broken into short vignettes, instructing the reader on how to reenact certain scenes when reading aloud. These stories were all reminiscent of other tales we've all heard but still have an unknown origin. This story is also interjected by several other urban legends, all with a female central figure who is usually the subject of gaslighting and manipulation. Kind of like an urban legend, if you will. The original story has apparently been adapted and told by several others, including Washington Irving and Alexandre Dumas and is itself based on an old French folktale that nobody remembers the author of. I had no idea that it was based on Jenny and her infamous green ribbon I had heard of the anthology Her Body and Other Parties that houses this story, but when I found this one online for free I decided to dive right in. This week's shortie is a feminist and dark fantasy retelling of one of the stories that totally and completely haunted me as a child She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of 'The New Vanguard,' one of '15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.'

Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the Crawford Award. Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W.

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