When She Was Me

by Marlee Bush

Apparently, Lenora didn’t hold it against me for trying to kill her in the womb.

When my mother was baptized, she was reborn a hypocrite.

She offers the vape to me. “No thanks. There are a thousand ways I’d rather die.”

Pain’s good, right? Reminds you that you loved someone well enough.”

“Her bookshelf is color coded and alphabetized. You were right, Lenora. She’s evil.”