CONTENTS

Body horror, an introduction

Massacre on Veng Sreng Street

The shameful legacy (and secret promise) of the sanitary napkin disposal bag

Women

A few things I have learned about illness in America

Model employee

Vagina dentata

Consumpcyon

Cultural imperative

On leaving the birthplace of standard time

Superbugs are coming for you!

Fake snake oil

The presence of no present

Fucking cancer

The metaphysics of compost

Three months after emerging from your deathbed

Acknowledgments

Notes