As a narrator from this short story collection helps a lost Girl Scout return to her troop, she recalls the Brownie riddle “Twist me and turn me and show me the elf, / I looked in the water and I saw myself.” A narrator from this collection dates a seamstress’s daughter, who is one of many women to fade and become incorporeal. In a story from this collection, a lesbian writer descends into insanity at an artists’ residency in the town of Devil’s Throat. Ghost girls with bells for eyes possess one of the two protagonists of a story from this collection, who are both haunted by their Doppelgänger. This collection’s first story ends with the narrator’s head falling off after her husband removes her green neck ribbon. 272 reimagined synopses of episodes of Law & Order: SVU feature in this collection, which opens with “The Husband Stitch.” For 10 points, name this short story collection by Carmen Maria Machado. ■END■
ANSWER: Her Body and Other Parties (The first two stories are “The Resident” and “Real Women Have Bodies.”)
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