"Monstro" is a strange apocalyptic story by Junot Diaz set in the Domincan Republic and Haiti. The June 4 and June 11, 2012 issues of The New Yorker featured works of science fiction by writers not normally known for this genre. Diaz's story starts out with the narrator, a young Dominican man attending Brown University in Rhode Island hoping to become a journalist, talking about a mysterious disease that "actually makes Haitians darker" that has just begun to be noticed in relocation camps.
Like most of the narrators in Diaz's fiction, the teller of this story is obsessed with hunting for women and is very much bonded to his mother. The disease begins to spread rapidly. Soon over 500,000 have it. The disease takes a series of very strange twists. Periodically the victims all simultaneously begin to make for about thirty seconds a terrible high pitched noise. They cannot stand to be separated from each other. The strange symptoms of the disease are very interesting.
The narrator is very good friends with another Brown University student from Santo Dominigo. He comes from a hyper-wealthy family. A lot of the story is just the two men hanging out together. Our narrator is in awe of his friend's wealth.
This is very much a fun story.
The story can be found here.
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