Annesha Mitha is a Fiction Zell Fellow at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, American Short Fiction, Catapult, and more. She has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and currently lives in Ypsilanti, MI with a hound named Flower.

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You Are A Tyrannosaurus Rex

By ANNESHA MITHA

Your body carries the marks of a fight from many moons ago, and you think that if you close your eyes these marks will heal. / Close your eyes. / Go to number 2.