There's Something About Mira

by Sonali Dev

An experience that traps my body and squeezes my heart, takes up all of me. I am the swirling blue sky, the steady yet nebulous flames of foliage, the bleeding glow of the stars and moon. For a moment, I am every painful experience I’ve ever had. I’m all my yearning for joy. Eddies of pain and pleasure burst inside me.

“People are dicks, Miru. Society has given them permission to be dicks as long as their evil is focused on those who can’t protect themselves.”