Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (Hardcover) bath and body Adorned with a dried cranberry

Adorned with a dried cranberry for locally grown color contrast

a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England

or yourself during rituals of manifestation and creation

‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (Hardcover) bath and body Adorned with a dried cranberryShesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a