notes from the autopsy

A cemetery of the rich and a cemetery of the poor, the act of peeling the skin off of a dead animal, the relationship of mother and child put under the lens of aging, the experience of wanting to throw one’s self off a building. How does death shape life? This collection slices open the body of mortality, peers into it, and attempts to make answers from the viscera.

This chapbook contains four essays: Resting Places, To Keep Safe, Growing Pains, and Are You Telling The Truth? Essays that have previously been posted have been expanded or revised. The approximate wordcount of this chapbook is 19k words.

“notes from the autopsy” is a nonfiction chapbook written by Zak V. R., formerly known as Aisha Rallonza. This book is a part of the Chapbook Series from the theses of students of Creative Writing in the Department of Fine Arts of the Ateneo de Manila University.