Both haunting and mesmerising. I love how Machado uses the weird (and sometimes the eerie, wink-wink Mark Fisher) to introduce topics of complex emotional resonance (i.e. identity, desire, power). This is what I want from all my speculative fiction: to explore the boundaries of the familiar, to peek into the liminal spaces between reality and the supernatural, to be challenged into confronting my own fears. Some of these stories will stay with me for a long while I think.