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“We, meanwhile, wriggled and writhed on against walls on cue, occasionally adding in some spooky whispering, stopping only to be corrected by Matthew if he caught our octopus arms tiring and straying too close to the floor. (It’s the yellow wallpaper, ladies, not the yellow carpet!)

It had been made clear to us from the offset that our costumes were going to take the form of yellow leotards. When we were presented with them they turned out to be made entirely of transparent, stretchy lace, and the shawls and gowns we had been told we would wear over them had been scrapped because Matthew didn’t think they looked right.’

From the short story Phantasmagoria in the collection Monstrous Longing”
― Abi Hynes, Monstrous Longing