Daughters Of The Revolution (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Hauk. He hadn’t ever paid much attention to himself. How could he get under the skin? He shed flakes. He’d lost a lung to tuberculosis after the war, a few teeth. This last was just a flap, a scrim. But he would be different without it. He stood in the WC and inspected himself, took himself in his hand. No need for an operation, Hauk assured him, just a procedure. (But then Hauk died, and God had to see the new man, Wu.) God understood that the procedure would change him slightly forever. Circumcision would fundamentally alter the narrow peninsula God thought of as himself. He dreamed he’d become monstrous, womanly, his body covered with nipples. In horrified fascination, dreaming, he touched them. Then it was as if a presence held him down, as if a body lay on his. He tried to sit up, but he was paralyzed, dozing. The Presence pressed on him; he pushed back. The Presence, having made her point, withdrew. God stood up, wiped a trail of salt from his chin and looked into the smoky, pockmarked mirror on the wall, a glass so ancient, it no longer reflected anything.
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