Agustina Bazterrica

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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There's something about her he'd like to break.

Who eat their domestic head alive, part by part. 

she's a nuisance, this naked woman in his barn.

The only achievement I wish I don’t reach…

Not all of them are grandparents, or will be. They're just seniors, people who have been alive for many years, and per- haps that's their only achievement. 

The blood continues to drip down the table. 

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