Arrival
I stumble out of the matatu taxi, struggle to hoist up my weighty backpack, and am immediately confronted by several people standing nearby under the leafy canopy of a large thorny acacia tree.
Non-Fiction
Words
“Words were minced into morsels that she could spit across the room like outrageous profanities.”
Divided By One
“No one told us what we should do while doctors opened his ribcage and stopped his heart.”
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Irish Exit
“For in that version, he had spared me a distant handshake. Spared me a goodbye. Left me the wide universe.”
Homemade Insanity
“My sweet, forbidden, secret recipe. Doctors will call you bipolar disorder, but to me, you are life itself.”
A Melancholy Old Woman Dying a Miserable Death Alone
“I’d been detaching from my body for years, secretly relieved that I wasn’t ever going to birth children of my own.”
February 5th, 2019
“My family prefers to refer to it as “poisoning”, which I’ve struggled to come to terms with.”
Spiked
“Jumping was the entire point, of course. V. had amassed the thorns to train the kittens by way of trauma.”