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Dracula
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When We Lost Our Heads
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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
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A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry
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The Once and Future Witches
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  • Galatea
    seema
    May 05, 2026
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    "On finding freedom for yourself in a world that denies it to you."

    Terrific short story/retelling highlighting the lengths some women have to go to to manipulate their abusive husbands and secure anything even remotely resembling peace for them and their children. Devastating and frustrating and disgusting in turn. The afterword is an absolute must-read for context on the source material and to best appreciate Miller's intentional departures from it. This story responds to and rejects "that the only good woman is the one who has no self beyond pleasing a man; the fetishization of female sexual purity; the connection of the snowy ivory with perfection; the elevation of male fantasy over female reality"

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  • Galatea
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    Dec 02, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

    men being men. no stone shall be left unfucked.

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  • Galatea
    Thoughts from 100% (Afterword)

    I thought I would share this from the afterword, which seems to be available in the audiobook but not ebook.

    This short story was inspired by Ovid’s version of the pygmalion myth in The Metamorphoses. MM was disturbed by the deeply misogynistic implications of the pygmalion story.

    Pygmalion‘s happy ending is only happy if you accept a number of repulsive ideas. That the only good woman is the one who has no self beyond pleasing a man. The fetishization of female sexual purity. The connection of the snowy ivory with perfection. The elevation of male fantasy over female reality.

    MM created the nameless woman. Complex, courageous and clever. Level headed and still sane, after having been locked up for a year. Still loving toward her daughter. This nameless woman is not of Ovid’s world. The sculpturer, Pygmalion, however, is as Ovid made him. MM notes that:

    The term Incel wasn’t in wide circulation when I wrote this. But Pygmalion is certainly a prototype. For a millenia there have been men who react with horror and disgust to women’s independence. Men who desire women yet hate them. And who take refuge in fantasies of purity and control. What would it be to live with such a man as your husband? There are too many today who could answer that. But that is the mark of a good source myth. It is water so wide it can reach across centuries.

    God. I hope she’s able to write Persephone.

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