Dr Jacqueline Coombe

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815 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Creepy · Some Body to Love · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Then I worked.

I stored the corpse in the barn, where the cold would keep it just this side of freezing.

To maintain the skin's freshness, I would flay it in chunks as I needed it.

I started with the shoulders.

The elation that sparked in my blood as I worked my knife underneath the first feather follicles was so intense I felt high.

I had many years of practice on deer, and the skin parted smoothly from its flesh.

I stared at those sheets, lightly oozing blood thickened by cold, with a pride never felt before.

The first cuts from my own body were much worse.

I had curved needles, thread, and an expired bottle of Vicodin, but I could not have prepared for the pain.

My first cut, tracing the curvature of my shoulder blade, was wobbly and uneven.

I could barely twist my arms around enough to reach my back and had to watch through a system of reflections as my blood splashed the bathroom tiles.

Drawing my skin from my body was relief and agony.

With every strip of slippery hide that I cut, I freed myself a little more from the prison of a shape I hated.

But I struggled to focus and even to maintain my grip.

I made it through half of one shoulder before I passed out from pain and blood loss.

When I woke, I set the knife to myself again.

I blacked out twice more before I even began sewing, but I needed to be able to knit bare flesh to bare flesh.

so that when it healed, the skin would be truly mine.

I lost all time.

Several nights came and went, and I grew hungry and ate several times more.

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