Anna’s Reviews > Chlorine > Status Update

Oh my god I don’t know if I can do this. This is BODY. HORROR.

Oh this is about to get so fucking fucked up

You want every detail so you can make appropriate judgments on the participants of such ambiguous events. You would like to decide whether or not I deserve your pity. You want all the information so you can properly decide whether what happened that night was my fault or not. Everything must be outlined in depth before I am believed—what I was wearing, what I said, how many times I said no, if I said no at all.

Same scene: “Though the entire procedure had been consensual—hell, my own idea—I cried for my violation.”

“When he reinserted his face back between my legs, I visualized lifting my foot and kicking open his ugly skull, smashing his tiny brains to a pulp.”

This is about the doctor placing her IUD and honestly, fair reaction!!! This scene was awful to read

“I’m confined to a comprehension of human difficulties through an American lens, no matter how hard I try to break out of the star-spangled brainwashing I was subject to from a young girl’s age. In a way, recognition that these issues are uniquely American makes it worse, because they are entirely avoidable.”

When you’re 7 years old at a hotel pool and you ask your sister “wanna play mermaids?”

The tone of this is so bizarre though. The main character, Ren, is narrating the events of her life that led her to becoming a mermaid. She speaks as though she *truly* is a mermaid, separate from her old human self, and I just can’t wait to see how much stranger it all gets