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M.D. Dhalgren rated Torture Works

M.D. Dhalgren rated a torture manual 1 year ago
A downloadable torture manual.

It's really good - a collection of related and unrelated short stories, and even a small tabletop-esque game wherein the player has no real agency and is subject to chance and authority as they kill all of their co-workers in a mission-gone-wrong.

I think the standout pieces were Rabbits Cry Different, The Maximum Softness Capable of Being Exerted by All Machinery, Living Fucking Creatures, and The Body Crushes the Soul.

They are centered (respectively) around:

  • An animal rights lobbyist and his date with a vivisectionist.
  • A humanized war-machine struggling to live and love as a person.
  • The daily lives of a quadrupedal tank's queer, bestial crew.
  • A self-professed 'ethical rapist' subject to the mercies of his intended victim.

I don't think you'll find similar things out there. They're pretty unique, strange, sincere, human creations.