Kim Fu Conjures Metaphorical Monsters

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (2022)

“It’s taken from a story about a woman who’s escaping an abusive partner. And she ends up renting a house, and the house is infested with bugs…. She’s sort of alone in this nightmare that no one else believes…. In all the stories in the collection, I’m trying to make more concrete and manifest certain emotions and experiences that are more nebulous by giving them a shape, or a form, as a monster. In this case, it’s the bugs.” —Kim Fu

An excerpt from “June Bugs”

It was bearable in the

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