Clockwork Girl

Athena Villaverde

Eraserhead Press

2011

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781621050001

Urban fairy tales for the weird girl in all of us. The book is a collection of three short bizarro novellas that make a perfect introduction to Athena Villaverde's unique style:

CATERPILLAR GIRL: Cat Filigree is a caterpillar girl trapped in the ugly stages of metamorphosis, desperately waiting to be transformed into a butterfly. She thinks she's doomed to be alone forever, until she meets Lilith and falls madly in love. But there's a problem: she's a spider girl and butterflies happen to be her favorite food.

CLOCKWORK GIRL: Like most children of poor families, Pichi was sold to a toymaker, surgically transformed into a mechanical living doll, and given as a Christmas present to a rich little girl. Now her skin is made of brass, her organs have been replaced by cogs and gears, and her heart must be wound up every day in order to stay alive.

BEEHIVE GIRL: Her skin is made of honeycomb. She smells of baked oranges and is dripping with amber-colored honey. Living bees swarm around her like miniature lovers and crawl through her hair as she dances. She is Maya, the queen of the tango; and if a man attempts to dance with her who lacks the proper amount of talent and grace, he will get stung... perhaps to death.