Hollowed

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Hollowed, the debut fiction chapbook by Lucy Zhang, fractures piece by piece with each succinct tale. Crack against the domicile counter as you read lines of code. Feel yolk run from slices into the thigh. Waft the prescence of a future lover while living in the present. Zhang’s fiction from Jellyfish Review, Hobart, The Cincinnati Review, and others will fry your mind and satiate your hunger.

“I initialized constants for your name, variables for your height and weight, buffer sizes for your capacity to learn. The code appeared in a spew of semicolons and letters, incrementing and transferring and accessing memory segments that you’d grow into. You’d find solace in an aluminum box, operating between 5% and 90% noncondensing humidity, a Beryllium-free environment. You’d age, become more complex, a pile of hacks and one-off conditionals, and the occasional glitch. Security by obfuscation.”

30pp.

Cover design by Josh Dale

Hollowed, the debut fiction chapbook by Lucy Zhang, fractures piece by piece with each succinct tale. Crack against the domicile counter as you read lines of code. Feel yolk run from slices into the thigh. Waft the prescence of a future lover while living in the present. Zhang’s fiction from Jellyfish Review, Hobart, The Cincinnati Review, and others will fry your mind and satiate your hunger.

“I initialized constants for your name, variables for your height and weight, buffer sizes for your capacity to learn. The code appeared in a spew of semicolons and letters, incrementing and transferring and accessing memory segments that you’d grow into. You’d find solace in an aluminum box, operating between 5% and 90% noncondensing humidity, a Beryllium-free environment. You’d age, become more complex, a pile of hacks and one-off conditionals, and the occasional glitch. Security by obfuscation.”

30pp.

Cover design by Josh Dale

About the Author

Lucy Zhang writes, codes, and watches anime. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She edits for Barren Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, and Pithead Chapel. Find her at kowaretasekai.wordpress.com or on Twitter @Dango_Ramen

Reviews

“Lucy Zhang’s beautifully-rendered Hollowed is a marvelous and magical excavation of personal and inherited mythologies. Through stories at once innovative and exquisite, Zhang takes us on a journey that asks us to reconsider identity and selfhood and what it means to be alive.”

—Robert James Russell, author of Mesilla and Sea of Trees

“How does a writer record the complicated experience of being alive, one that is irrational, hyper rational, and fantastical, all at the same time? Lucy Zhang accomplishes this through unflinching yet vulnerable prose, as she dives into all the conflicting complications that is being a woman. This is a collection you will want to savor over and over again, each reading revealing yet another facet of the understanding.”

—Minyoung Lee, author of Claim Your Space

“The stories in Hollowed are visceral, hungry. It's clear they seek some inimitable truth about the way tenderness means we also hurt—and leave you with a special sort of frisson.”

—Elle Nash, author of Gag Reflex and Nudes