Hungerstone

by Kat Dunn

I am not safe if I obey and reduce and control, just as I am not safe if I rebel and shout and anger.

If I am mad, it is only because they have made me so.

What is a monster but a creature of agency?

All we can hope for in life is to know one’s own desires in order to be able to act on them. To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment.

Men conspiring in dark little holes like vermin, chittering their spiteful thoughts to one another, make the world like this, hurt people like that. I hate them I hate them I hate them.