edition three
Extract:
'you know when he perfumes your skin / after making out all afternoon in his bed / arms & legs tangled'
Extract:
'I came across the word during my degree, someplace on the ragged trajectory between insouciant waster and self-conscious, earnest overthinker. I can’t remember where I found it...'
Extract:
'She/ they kneels in front of the mirror, bare knees on rough wood. C starts with scissors. They chop chunks. Hair curls from her'
Extract:
'How did you do it? / Mute strength and a broom handle / How did you do it? / Rag over the face covering eyes'
Extract:
'The third worst thing about deadheading a hydrangea is that the heads weigh almost nothing. As you clip them off the plant and toss them aside...'
Extract:
'When you are young, you don’t understand that ‘Till death do us part’ is a hope, not a promise.
I am sitting in a National Trust Cafe at Quarry Bank Mill submerged in a sea of Joules and Boden and White Stuff.'
Extract:
'You will experience menstrual cycles exactly twenty-eight days apart / (Follow the Science) / Your core body temperature will rise 0.3 to 0.7°C in the luteal phase'
Extract:
'At low tide, she reveals her mouth. It’s less a voice than a laboured gurgle, pronouncing fatbergs and shit in between gasps for air.'
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