“Cover yourself in honey, raw, roll it into your cheeks like iron scraping away at the edges of you”
TRANSLATION
Excerpt from Ghost Auntie
Translated from Chinese by Emily Lu
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And who knows how long this will last? Weeks? Months? I can't wrap my head around it.
WIT TEA
Geramee Hensley is Deceased, and I am Filing This Tax Return on Their Behalf
I’m praying death sticks around long enough / to make a disciple of me.
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