Content Warning: Abuse, Sexual Assault

You cannot halt a billion years of evolution. We were here long before you and we will be here long after.

She feels the tidal pull of a future without him. She has almost forgotten what life was like, all those years ago, when they’d talked over books and equations, she his little witch.

Society was being taken over by a new paradigm, that of sociogenomics, the belief that everything we want to know about ourselves is part social and part genetic.

why must they demand black bodies self-sacrifice in ultraviolet? that is, why must we give all of us to them until we have nothing left?

The trick is to hold the breath and the tongue but not in the same hand, and without leaning in too far.