Listen to our audio presentation of “Six Things We Found During the Autopsy” by Kuzhali Manickavel. Narrated by Mahvesh Murad.
Kuzhali Manickavel
Kuzhali Manickavel’s collections Things We Found During the Autopsy, Insects Are Just like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, and echapbook Eating Sugar, Telling Lies are available from Blaft Publications, Chennai. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Agni, Subtropics, Michigan Quarterly Review, and DIAGRAM. She used to blog at thirdworldghettovampire.blogspot.com.
Six Things We Found During the Autopsy
A Playboy was hidden behind her jaw, rolled and bent like she had stashed it there in a hurry. Black and white alarm clocks were pasted over the women’s breasts and the words !wUt aLarming bOobeez! were scrawled across the stomachs. It was hard to tell if she had done this herself or if someone else had done it for her.