Bloodchild

What!? This story was very hard to understand, The setting?, The characters?, The race?, Why there was guns?, How many limbs they had? It was all over the place. I could not figure out what gender the narrator of the story was supposed to be and it made the story a lot more confusing than it already was. Many parts were very unsettling for me. The way that these species recreated themselves was described in such grotesque detail. Using humans as hosts for their parasitic eggs was hard to read. I really question what message or thought Butler was trying to get across to her readers. The story makes me question our own race and the way we deal with relationships, birth, preserving our species, the way we ourselves are hosts to many things. The setting was very vague. My mind had to fill in many blanks because of the lack of world building in Butlers writing. I only understood that it was on some sort of preserve. Even for a short story much was left unexplained. It did not necessarily leave me wanting more either. Later into the story more and more was revealed but still not enough for me to fully create a solid visual of the characters and environment.