Welcome to The Feminist Bibliothecary’s Lite Reads, where we read a different short story every week, and then discuss it here and on social media. This week’s Lite Reads selection is The Cure by Malinda Lo!
The Cure by Malinda Lo is a short story published by Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts in their Spring of 2015 issue. Malinda Lo’s website describes the story as such: “[it’s] about one possible cure for hysteria, which was once believed to be a medical condition that afflicted women. It was inspired by the quote that opens the story — a quote from a real physician describing hysteria.”
Malinda Lo is a Chinese-born USAmerican author of young adult novels. She is a co-founder of Diversity in YA, has been featured on countless best-of lists, and has been nominated for a multitude of awards, including being a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Some of her best known novels include Adaptation (2012), Ash (2009), Huntress (2011), and A Line In the Dark (2017). She has a novel scheduled to be released in January of 2021 called Last Night At the Telegraph Club. Lo has also had a number of her short stories feature in anthologies such as Fresh Ink (2018) and ll Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages (2018).
You can read The Cure by Malinda Lo in full for free on the Interfictions Online website. I am unaware of any audio version of this story, and I apologise for any difficulties this causes.
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