Interview with a Menstruating Woman

This was it. I took my seat in my favorite red chair and reached across to shake hands with the brunette woman across from me. “It’s truly a pleasure to meet you face to face, Miss,” I paused. “Tipping, was it?” My confusion must have been visible. She laughed.

“Yes, Tipping. Us,” the woman paused for a moment before she continued, “Goblin women have unusual names.” A lion-like tail slowly wrapped around, from the back of the chair, and I gaped. “Oh, come now. Show some decorum. If it helps, pretend it’s stage magic.” Her eyes narrowed for a brief moment. “Compose yourself. We air shortly, you know. Unrehearsed and live. Nobody will edit this to save your face if you stammer.” Her tone was scolding, like a mother whose child refused to sit straight at the dinner table.

 

“Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.” – Chuck Palahniuk

Reporter Jaime Allison looked forward at the figure before him.  The man was short of stature, and his silhouette left much to the imagination.  He sighed. “Another mystery interview from the man in black, is it?”

The man drenched in shadows laughed. “Yes.  You know how it is.  I remember something worthy of therapy, and I come to you.  You write it out, your readers piss themselves over the mystery, because you aren’t a creative man, and the world moves on, a little more entertained than it was before.”