Skeleton Woman bared the fisherman, slipped a finger into his warmth, retrieved the heart, clasped it to her core.
Read MoreYou want to say, they aren’t nightmares. You say, “I haven’t been alone in years.”
Read MoreI can only remember how pale she was, how I wondered what weights she was carrying in her soul to bow her head so low.
Read Morewe guard our teeth as soft / handed women guard / their pearls
Read MoreWithin the tower there was no want for anything but soft gentleness and simple fire.
Read MoreMuttering, / she handed me / grinning flame. / I did not know / its will.
Read MoreI would have a word / tucked under my tongue / that would crack a man's bones / until they splintered through flesh.
Read Morefor every nettled night / there was a bullet of / lipstick blooming
Read MoreShe thinks of / ripe tomatoes on the sill, an oven full of fruit simmering, / a fire on the verge of blaze.
Read MoreThey looked up at her, palms out, mouths stained with chocolate. Behind them, the mailbox stood half-eaten.
Read MoreThe snakes aren't as bad as everyone says. You didn’t expect this: / I can tell from your expression.
Read MoreI’d like for you to cast an enchantment on me. To other women, I will appear as I am. Ordinary. Human. But to men, I will be hideous. A monster.
Read MoreThe witches warned them that the homeworld had become a wild place, and that the sun and moon had become dim.
Read MoreForgiveness is a knife, blunt despite the whetstone.
Read MoreHer heart is always singing a song, always coming up roses, always aching to be touched and to touch in return.
Read MoreWith the boys too asleep to police us, our bodies were no longer crime scenes, but gardens.
Read MoreOutside the snow sifted through the air like powdered sugar. Betty climbed from the baking table, crumbs showering the floor like a way home.
Read MoreEven though she was far away from the village, she carried its terrible secrets, and her heart and soul grew heavy with them.
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