Is it better to be the universal donor or the universal recipient

If grief has a half-life, then Isla’s is nuclear and will live beyond her, beyond language.

Content Warning: Abuse, Sexual Assault.

the smell of burning carpet like when a place someone lives is burning, photographs filling with black water before curling at the edges like hats.

a story started three generations ago gassed you backwards. Left you the epilogue of a Ghostface b-side.

This is a reluctance to share language with the ants. To describe our lives as we do the ants’. We say about ourselves: industry, innovation.