Ottessa Moshfegh
An Excerpt from Ottessa Moshfegh's Upcoming Novel, 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation'
A woman decides to hibernate by taking as many psychiatric medications as she can convince her psychiatrist to prescribe her. But reality calls her out of hibernation when her best friend's mother dies, and she must go to the funeral.
Read 'The Pornographers', New Fiction From Ottessa Moshfegh
A short story by the young American writer.
'Love Stories' by Ottessa Moshfegh
Power oscillates between a man and woman who are trying to make something happen, but can never quite get there.
A Short Story About Costumes, Sex, and Lying to Businessmen
'The Surrogate,' by Ottessa Moshfegh
Medicine
This is a story that started off as a confessional letter. I lived in China during my early 20s and until now haven't wanted to write anything about it. "Medicine" appears here as an excerpt from a novel-in-progress about those years.
It Happened
We moved into a house a few blocks from the Marcy projects at the end of last summer. In time, it became obvious the place next door was a drug den.