Listen to Your Sister

by Neena Viel

as though this awkward

“Obviously, two cousins got married, had a kid, and then murdered each other. It’s a ghost in a doll, not a demon.”

Prom Calla’s smile was a slice of smeared lipstick.

she had the dreamy eyes and contorted mouth of a girl sighing in a dark bedroom.

“I felt something break. Right here,” she murmured, pressing a hand to her heart. “It hurt so bad I thought she was killing us. But she was freeing us.”