Last November, the final petal curled its softness into bone (and my mouth tasted bruised for weeks). Death has a name that sounds like silk sliding over the ground, but she is not so soft:Continue reading
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Girl of Glass
They say a child can swim in the veins of a blue whale, that the vessels are just big enough for the slender body of a little girl. I would have fit perfectly, thin andContinue reading
Behind My Skin
There is something living inside of me. It blooms out from between my lips like a bouquet of diseased flowers I have kept pressed beneath my tongue for so long that my mouth has memorizedContinue reading
Cocaine Symphonies
There is this music I hear. It sounds exactly the way perfume smells: intoxicatingly sweet but dizzying if you inhale too much at once. It’s the kind of music you play when you’re too sadContinue reading
This Loving
I love you. We’ve all heard these words before. We’ve said them before. We’ve given them out like they were candies wrapped in little blue boxes with silver strings, we’ve imagined them into ourContinue reading
Fairest of Them All
ROSEMARY: A young girl, daughter to MARIANNE, who initially represents the brightness and innocence of childhood. Yet as she grows older and more beautiful, she becomes the object of her mother’s jealousy. Thus, her relationshipContinue reading
Angels’ Wings
I have learned: it is impossible to be both beautiful and strong. She is made of glass, you made her out of glass. But she never wanted to be made up of angles andContinue reading