Bucket Siler is a writer and freelance editor. She holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and has been a Vermont Studio Center Fellow and the recipient of a Fulcrum Fund Award. Her work has appeared in Storm Cellar, The Offing, Atticus Review, Bracken, and others. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in New Mexico.

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Crush

By BUCKET SILER

Sometimes, in the morning, he smiles at me, and I think I’ll scratch his eyes out.