“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”

“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded th...”

“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”

“[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you.”

“You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her st...”