CW: reference to sexual assault 1. He was trying to prove that I wasn’t a lesbian. Or so he claimed, when he didwhat he insisted that he had to do,while his intellectually disabled brother watched cartoons just outside the closed bedroom door. I was 18. He was 21. When he was done,I drank wine coolersContinue reading “out-living”
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the body (second movement)
I. A woman sat in a rocking chair in front of my house and cheerfully enumerated to me and the other mothers in attendance the ways in which her church taught members’ pre-adolescent daughters that if they had sex outside of/before marriage they would be permanently damaged. “You give each girl a balloon and theyContinue reading “the body (second movement)”
Undusted Corners 