Bloodchild

Finally! A short story that was completely intriguing throughout...I know, you would think it would be easy to do that in a short story, since it's short...but apparently it isn't. But here Octavia (the author) does a beautiful job. I loved it. I was disgusted by it and it made my skin crawl and it made me upset and I loved it. I thought the parallel from the story's occurences, and pregnancy,  was extremely clever. And I relate to the fear of child birth as well as parasites, so this was pretty much my nightmares in a short story, thank you, Octavia. But seriously, I really thoroughly enjoyed the read. It's extremely revealing and beautiful in the small space it takes up, and I was completely impressed with the concept as well as the way it was written. It was ugly, and you didn't want to stop reading it, it was absolutely awesome.