In Aimee Bender's "Ironhead" there is a family of pumpkin heads, in a world of humans, who have a son that is born with an iron head. Through the story we see how he does not fit in with his family or the rest of society. He is always miserable and made fun of in school. His family tries to make him feel better, but they just do not understand him. There is a point when he cannot sleep and his parents do not know why, and he would not tell them. It is sad when he goes to the store just to sit on the shelf with other irons so he can feel like he belongs for once, thats all he really wanted out of life. Sadly the boy ends up dying young because of the tremendous weight of his iron head.
Then we read her short story, "Motherfucker." This story was kind of similar to "Ironhead" because the main characters both have their own way of life and do not fit in with society. The mother fucker in the story goes around only having sex with single mothers. He never settles down in a relationship with one person, he says how he just loves all women. It never says why he does this, but I think he must have had issues being loves as a child with his own mother and finds it difficult loving others. Like "Ironhead," though he did not die, they both ended up being alone in the end.
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