Jar of Fat by Seayoung Yim

Author:Seayoung Yim [Yim, Seayoung]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

Good Fat

ABILENE and CLEMENTINE’s faces have started to heal. They help each other remove the remnants of their facial fat injections.

ABILENE We have tried everything and it’s never enough. I don’t know what to do to make them happy.

CLEMENTINE What if we just stopped stressing? There’s good things about being fat and ugly too.

ABILENE Like what?

CLEMENTINE Don’t you think being ugly has built up our character?

ABILENE Who cares about character when no one wants you?

CLEMENTINE I think our ugly made us more resourceful. And did you know there are good fats?

ABILENE Yes. Fat in your lips, a little in the cheeks so you don’t look old. On your ass, of course.

CLEMENTINE But also the fat deep inside your—

ABILENE Are you talking about subcutaneous fat on your lower abdomen? That kind is supposed to kill you.

CLEMENTINE No, like the fat that keeps you warm.

ABILENE But we have houndstooth coats for that very reason. Fashion and warmth.

CLEMENTINE But there’s fat that shields our organs. Gives us energy. Produces vital hormones. Fat that protects against trauma. Promise we’ll be each other’s FUPA against the world.

ABILENE I promise.

CLEMENTINE To formally ferment . . . no, foment our oath—take this knife. Slice your hand. And I’ll slice my hand with my knife. And we’ll shake on it.

CLEMENTINE hands ABILENE a small knife in a sheath with a tassel attached to it. She takes another one out of her pocket.

ABILENE Don’t you think we already share enough genetic material?

CLEMENTINE Shut up. Don’t belittle our blood oath.

ABILENE But where did you get knives?

CLEMENTINE They were passing them out at church when you were in the bathroom. They’re mini-Korean knives from the olden times for women to kill themselves with before men can rape them, on a key chain.

ABILENE Fine. But instead of killing ourselves we’ll kill rapists.

CLEMENTINE Duh, of course. Aren’t they cute?

ABILENE It’s not that sharp.

CLEMENTINE So we just have to stab pretty hard. Okay, ready? One, two, three, stab! Cool. So listen, I’ve been stealing from church for years now as restitution for the bullying every Sunday. I saved up enough for an apartment deposit. Time to get out of the ugly hole of our minds and into—

ABILENE OMG. Are you talking about . . .

CLEMENTINE MOVING OUT, BITCH!

ABILENE But, like . . . that’s like, wow. What will we do when we move out?

CLEMENTINE Whatever! Eat whatever we want. We’ll stop worrying about bringing shame to anyone but ourselves. It will be a dead zone for beauty. I’m going to glide my enormous stomach from room to room looking for another big stomach to touch mine at our palace.

ABILENE But won’t it be lonely?

CLEMENTINE I don’t need anybody but you, dummy.

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