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A Taste for Blood by Seanna Pratt
It was another summer where I was waiting to find him, the sparkling apparition. All wide eyed, shoulders like concrete. They said I was wrong when I found her instead. The ivory woman and her mouth. The ivory woman and my mouth. We kissed until our teeth were chipped and lips bruised lavender whenever we […]
Continue ReadingWindowsill by Karen Draper
It’s cloudy here, and I’m not sure I feel real. Coffee never tastes the same twice, and there is always a part of my body that smells like Fritos. (Today my belly button. Yesterday the backs of my earlobes.) In the mornings is when I want you most. I didn’t not major in English to […]
Continue ReadingDropped like Keys by Georgia Ladd
It is a terrible thing to lose the soul; dropped like keys. To be resurrected in the middle of the street, your chest concave, a fishhook yanking your stomach out through your throat, unable to clutch even a hint of yourself as you carry a body through a life, passively unattached to your earthly […]
Continue ReadingEnter the Queen with her hair about her ears by Joseph Mills
In second grade, she cut her hair, taking the blunt art class scissors and squeezing off a thick lock in the middle of her forehead. a Her mother grounded her, saying, “We have to look at you,” a statement her body was not hers to do with as she chose, but a display for others. […]
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