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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.” (10[1])A narrator from this collection dates a seamstress’s daughter, who is one of many women to fade and become incorporeal. (10[4])In a story from this collection, a lesbian writer descends into insanity at an artists’ residency (10[1])in the town of Devil’s Throat. (10[1])Ghost girls with bells for eyes possess one of the two protagonists (10[1])of a story from this (10[1])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 (10[1])her (10[1])green neck ribbon. (10[1]-5[1])272 (-5[1])reimagined synopses of episodes (-5[1])of Law & Order: SVU feature in this collection, which opens (-5[1])with “The Husband (-5[1])Stitch.” For 10 points, name this short story collection by Carmen Maria (-5[1])Machado. ■END■ (0[7])

ANSWER: Her Body and Other Parties (The first two stories are “The Resident” and “Real Women Have Bodies.”)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2060%0%30%84.50

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Daniel SheinbergYale AWUSTL A6110
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Wenying WuToronto ATexas A8310
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Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AVirginia A132-5
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Andrew HannaVanderbilt AFlorida B146-5
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Raymond WangCornell AMaryland A1600
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