To Be Devoured

by Sara Tantlinger

What a strange, marvelous thing it would be. Eat away the bad parts—for me, eat away my sadness, the sticky, bitter feelings with their rage inside my body, cloying my will to live some days. Most days.

I meannn she ain't completey wrong …

like a dried onion bulb stuffed into the back of my throat.

The old man doesn’t need to know all my business.

LoOL

“Right.” Our eyes meet. “Well, I’m going to go. Take care.”

Bye felisha

Can dead flesh hold anger?

What exactly am I paying this woman for, again?

Literally..

“That’s a lot different than sucking up someone’s menstrual blood like a goddamn perverted vampire!”

NO REALLY LOL

but so did I.

Girl no tf u didn't

Or maybe it’s the dead pig rooting in my intestines.

“Are those…bones?”

She ate the damn bones!?

I have pushed everything good away because of this deep need in me to understand the vultures.

Awareness is key

the sweet satisfaction of being a pissed off bitch to everyone and not giving a single fuck anymore.

Mood

Luna…

O m g

“And I’m here to take another, you ugly bitch.

LOL SORRY I LAUGHED

next time.

NEXT TIME!?

I wonder what he’d taste like after being dead on the road for a day or two.

Omfg

I drove the corkscrew deep into Luna’s thighs, untapping her blood and letting it pool into my mouth. Her sweet red wine, all mine.

OUCHHHHH

She is the singular presence here. Ever. No other staff or secretaries. Only the doctor with her big eyes and tan suits.

Mmmm yea she ain't real hon

“I’m not talking to a dead deer in the middle of the woods. Look at it! Why is it suspended from the tree? Who hangs up their kill in the woods and leaves it there to rot?”

OMG OMG ONGONGHJDHDJDJDJS IT WAS A FUCKING DEERRRRRRRRR!?!!

“I’m sorry,” I say. “You should have just taken the gift, Luna.”

Boy fucking bye