The salt and sand, your stomach acid. Churning, crunching, your mouth opens slow (You monster) a gaping maw that devours people. Whole. Your stomach lining is cold, covered in a thick plastic, green-grey speckled with phlegm and age spots. Yellow and black nerves, bright against your flesh, trickle, drip downward. I want to press one,Continue reading “The Beast – A Boston Poem”
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Consume
My eyes break open. I hear the snap of wings against stone and brick, pelting the air around me, buffeting my body from all sides like a tempest formed of breezes multiplied and harnessed. My jaw cracks wide and breath rushes from my lungs. I don’t remember holding it in before sleep took me, butContinue reading “Consume”
Mitch: A Short Story
I’ve been living in this cave, in this mountainous country, in this wild copse of bush and rock since the very first moment of my life. I have never seen another living being besides my mother, and in the years since she was taken I’ve yet to meet another soul. When she was stolen fromContinue reading “Mitch: A Short Story”
Cassandra Mortimer 