The narrator’s cognitive dissonance between her femininity and bodily autonomy spirals out of control in the few moments she is alone with her thoughts, creating a snake-bite-quick micro fiction that strikes fast but alludes to a more insidious, lasting harm. In this hurried, breathless monologue, the reader is presented with a woman confronting the paradox of her own desire to be seen and her resentment of society’s obsession with seeing. Nearly five years later, Andrea’s original Spanish-language versions were published as a triptych of “Monólogos” in Fondo Blanco’s Mexicanas: Trece Narrativas Contemporáneas, and it seemed an excellent time to revisit the very first project we ever worked on together. I’ve had the great pleasure of collaborating with Andrea Chapela since we met in Iowa City in 2016, and it was not long after our first meeting that we began working on this text.
The story appears below in both English and Spanish.
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