guest review by Northwestern medical student Michael Colacci Monsters is a story by Ken Dahl of a man who gets herpes. The story begins with a short 2 page sequence with questions that people looking in on the disease might ask: What does it feel like to not be able to kiss your child, or share a drink, or perform oral sex? We meet our protagonist while in a fairly stable relationship before he learns of his diagnosis. After which, we watch his job, his relationship, and his identity become slowly but completely consumed by herpes. He decides that he… Read More