In the story Inventory, The author describes her sexual experiences in the pen, Demic English. The setting is currently in a list of Short stories that feature interaction with either a man or a woman due to the fact that she’s bisexual so she has interactions with both men and women throughout the story. This is probably due to a multitude of reasons, Firstly, each individual experience is very individualized and goes into some kind of death about each person she has an encounter with. Not only does each experience review information about herself, but it also reveals information about each individual person she has these encounters with. Each individual experience also gives the reader inside of the setting around the protagonist as well. In the story, there is also a very catastrophic pandemic going on that is killing people constantly. We get to see this progression of this virus from the beginning, when basically it was a non-factor because at that point it was early on in her childhood and it hadn’t started yet. But now, towards the end of the book, we see that this pandemic has really taken its manifestation on the society as a whole. At this point in the story it has killed a lot of people, Not only that, but a lot of people that she loves, and some she might’ve had these sexual experiences with. Inventory, as a whole brings the concept of the human body into different juxtapositions on the body of love to the body of death in the spare contrasting, these two elements, all throughout the story to show the conflict in which the protagonist has to deal with on a day by day basis. This is central to the idea why the Author organizes her individualized experiences in a list format in a way of keeping inventory.
