#especially heinous: 272 views of law & order svu

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU" is available to read here

[augustatheghost]

Law & Order: SVU 24x11 / “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU” by Carmen Maria Machado / Law & Order: Organized Crime 3x21

[judasisgayriot]

One of the weirdest coolest creepiest most creative things I’ve read in a long time???

a weird surreal creepy journey. A horror novella told through fake Law&Order SVU episode summaries. Tw rape murder violence suicide child abuse eating disorders gore… you don’t have to know the source material. I’ve never watched the show myself.

[leehallfae]

“she reaches down and touches the pavement. it is breathing. its two-toned heartbeat makes her clavicle vibrate. she can feel it. she is suddenly, irrevocably certain that the earth is breathing. she knows that new york is riding the back of a giant monster. she knows this more clearly than she has ever known anything before.”

— carmen maria machado, “especially heinous: 272 views of law & order: svu,” her body & other parties

[freakingweirdo]

this was soooo. Truly a story. about something

[fictionz]

Benson starts sleeping with a crucifix and pungent ropes of garlic, because she does not understand the difference between vampires and murdered teenagers. Not yet.

"Especially Heinous - 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU"

[ravenkings]

fr though as a woman (who lives in nyc) svu has always seemed to me more like a gothic fairy tale in which sexual violence (particularly against women) is taken seriously, and IF YOU ACTUALLY WATCHED IT, you would know that oftentimes, the system DOES actually end up failing the victims. anyway, there's a reason why most of the fans of this show are women and that it's been on air for over 20 years.

also: read carmen maria machado's short story "especially heinous: 272 views of law and order svu"

whenever someone calls law and order svu "copaganda"

[candiedspit]

a selection of poems that have influenced me

The Motorcyclists — James Tate 

Oklahoma — Hala Alyan 

Ellen West — Frank Bidart

At The Teahouse -- Kiki Petrosino 

Falling -- James L. Dickey 

Night, Death, Mississippi -- Robert Hayden

The Psychiatrist -- Ai

The Takers -- Sharon Olds 

Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU -- Carmen Maria Machado

Apocalypse with bed sheets -- Brian Clifton 

Hanging Fire -- Audre Lorde 

100 Bells -- Tarfia Falzullah 

Speed Trap — Kevin Young

For Jane -- Charles Bukowski 

Cardi B Tells Me About Myself -- Eboni Hogan

How Much -- Victoria Chang 

Passengers -- Denis Johnson 

The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner -- Randall Jerrell 

[m-aremagnum]

— Carmen Maria Machado, Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU

[phaedraismyusername]

Finished reading Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (it's excellent btw I highly recommend it) and cannot overstate how obsessed I am with the story 'Especially Heinous: 272 views of Law and Order SVU'

The mind it takes to even dream up the concept of using 272 reimagined episode synopses of 12 series of SVU as vignettes to tell an overarching story and have that story actually be GOOD is just... mad scientist levels of genius tbh

[dateamonster]

had some delicious butter chicken and im back :9

11. i have no mouth and i must scream by harlan ellison. once again, a classic. if you havent yet i absolutely recommend giving it a read.

12. bloodchild by octavia butler. oooughj when the horror is a romance and the romance is a horror and also eggs.

13. bug mountain by ian tews. coincidentally, bug mountain presents a similar situation to bloodchild, only much more horrific and much less mutualistic. i am constantly revisiting this story to try and reckon with how it leaves me feeling. ill let you know when i figure it out.

14. the strands by megan milk. oo baby i love trans lesbian horror about fucked up codependent relationships. and a degree of body horror doesnt hurt.

15. down by the sea near the great big rock by joe r lansdale. did you like color out of space? youll probably like this.

16. the lake by tananarive due. a recently moved divorced summer school teacher finds herself transforming into, in every sense, a true predator. really unsettling stuff.

17. the lunch pail by w.b. stickel. i saw someone asking for cosmic horror and im here to deliver.

18. the outsider by h.p. lovecraft. i know i know hes not my favorite guy either but the outsider imo is a really interesting sort of departure from his other work. also, kind of sad as fuck!

19. the hounds of tindalos by frank belknap long jr. not a lovecraft but i did hear this guy was one of his buddies and it makes sense to me. an underrated classic bit of eldritch freakery in my honest onion. i hope youre ready for an unforgettable luncheon.

20. especially heinous: 272 views of law & order svu by carmen maria machado. technically more of a novella but i first read it in her short story anthology soooo. and anyway trying to define this story is a hopeless task. part horror part crime procedural part romance part poetry part? fanfic?? kinda??? ma'am this shit makes me crazy tysm.

okay taking another break on this for now. im already over 50 likes total so idk how high im actually gonna go but im having fun so id like to do at least a few more at some point.

i dont want to go on twxtter but i do wanna make a thread of stuff i like

1 ❤ like = 1 👻 short horror story rec

[nedlittle]

top five short series

okay this is interesting because i am not a big short story reader (why? who knows) so i don't know if i will be able to give you 5 but you will get at least three! however i would love to read more short stories that either feel like being killed with a hammer or remain in the back of my psyche forever, so i would love recommendations :)))

i read brokeback mountain (and watched the movie for the first time!) over the summer and it very slowly peeled me like an orange. i made a post on the matter

lamb to the slaughter by roald dahl. a classic "good for her" story. my grade 12 writers craft teacher read this one aloud and made us write our own endings however i had been called out of class for some reason that i do not remember, so i missed the beginning of the story but still had to do the worksheet and i was so confused. and then he read us the ending and everyone went bananas! i still have not read the first 95% of this story but what a fun experience that class was

especially heinous: 272 views of law & order svu by carmen maria machado. my general view of her body and other parties is that it is wonderfully written and very smart but absolutely not for me. i have only ever experienced svu as background noise that i occasionally look over at while i am eating dinner. and yet this was my favourite of the collection! it's a wonderful example of a transformative work, very night vale-y!

a border-line case by daphne du maurier. (i can't find a link to this one rn but it's featured in the collection don't look now/not after midnight depending on publishing and editions) a story by, for, and about sickos. i love daphne du maurier's insistence on putting Very Weird psychosexuality in all the works of hers i've read. horrifying plot twist, absolutely no way of predicting what the plot is going to be.

the veldt by ray bradbury. more english class nightmare fuel. i hope this happens to mark zuckerberg <3

bonus points to THEE archetypal fucked up english class short story the lottery by shirley j (iirc my mean grade 7 teacher read this one aloud. it was definitely in elementary school), cottonmouth by joelle wellington, guts by chuck palahinuk (i have read this one twice against my best judgment and refuse to link it so i cannot be held responsible for people reading it), and avi cantor has six months to live by sacha lamb, which is genuinely nice and not nightmare-inducing like most of these

[antigonick]

—when he closes his eyes at night, he still remembers his high school girlfriend: her soft thighs, her lined hands, the way she dropped off that roof like a falcon.

Carmen Maria Machado, “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU”, in Her Body and Other Parties

[dwellordream]

“FAULT”: In her dream, Benson hears the heartbeat. She is on an empty New York City street. There is no breeze. The pavement does move, though, as if something is breathing. Benson begins to follow the sound of the heartbeat down the street. She sees a dark doorway, a sign above it that reads SHAHRYAR BAR & GRILL. Inside, the counters are polished and dark red. The bottles and glasses gleam like the surface of a river, and every time the beat sounds they tremble. There is a door tucked in the corner, a strip of light glowing beneath it. Laughter. Benson thinks it sounds like it did when she was a girl, and her mother had a cocktail party and Benson had to sit in her bedroom, a plate of tiny appetizers and half a cup of apple juice resting on her nightstand. She nibbled a mushroom that was full of something melted, and then drank her juice, and she could hear laughter on the other side of the door, glasses clinking, voices going loud and soft and loud again. She tried to read a book but ended up in her bed in the dark, listening to the voices that were so far and so close, picking out her mother’s bray in the din like pulling a loose thread of elastic from the band of your underpants, pulling, tightening, ruining them. That is what she feels now, the voices on the other side of the door. She reaches for the handle, the distance between her hand and it halving with each passing nanosecond, the metal cold even before her hand touches it. When Benson wakes up, she is screaming.

Carmen Maria Machado, “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU.” in Her Body and Other Parties