Review of Julia Lafond, “The Aftertaste,” Flash Fiction Online 141 (June 2025): 19-21 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Content note: Disordered eating.
The last thing Mom needed was my worries on top of hers (p. 20).
This is a story of accommodation, of swallowing all the distress, fear, anger, unhappiness, tamping it down, keeping it down, so that everyone else can be happy.
It’s beautiful and toxic and Lafond’s words make the tastes tingle on my own tongue.
(First published in Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, October 2023.)
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