Perfect Bound // 4×6, 146pgs
“Fleischerei examines how consciously and intentionally we can adopt the obsessions of others, how willful our abandoning of our own will can be, and how persistent we must be in the pursuit of self-destruction. I’d say it’s a redemption of our freedom to choose what’s worse, if everything didn’t go so terribly. There’s an arrogance in Órfhlaith’s decision to become meat. I’m still thinking about it weeks later.”
— Charlene Elsby (Author, The Devil Thinks I’m Pretty)
Passively suicidal and deeply masochistic, Órfhlaith numbs herself with compulsive fantasies. When she becomes infatuated with her sickly colleague, Arnaud, the pair embark on a romance of mutilation. Fleischerei is a story about people and places that are cut into pieces; a story about ambivalence; a story about intimacy and violence.
It is a love story.
