Short Stories Book Club: Shedding Her Own Skin & Royal Jelly

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month we
are reading "Shedding Her Own Skin" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and "Royal Jelly" by Roald Dahl

Link to Shedding Her Own Skin : https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/miscellaneous/shedding-her-own-skin/

Link to Royal Jelly : https://thetafiction.com/story/royal-jelly/

Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Cachanilla and Canuck, originally from Baja California, she now resides in Vancouver. She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ignyte Award), Mexican Gothic (Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Aurora Award, Goodreads Award), and Velvet Was the Night (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Macavity Award). She writes in a variety of genres including fantasy, horror, noir and historical.
She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu’s Daughters). Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best American Mystery and Suspense.n(https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/about-2020/)

Roald Dahl is the UK’s No.1 storyteller of all time. Before he became a writer, he was a spy and a fighter pilot in World War II.
One of his first moments of inspiration came when he was at boarding school, when a local chocolate factory invited pupils to trial new chocolate bars - 35 years later, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published.
He wrote lots more brilliant stories, many from his writing hut in his back garden in Great Missenden; from Sophie's adventures with the BFG and James' journey on the Giant Peach, to Matilda's brilliant bravery against The Trunchbull.
Each of his stories is an unexpected adventure to the weirdest, wonkiest and most wonderful worlds, that continue to enthral generations of kids and adults alike. (https://www.roalddahl.com/about)