You Are Fatally Invited

by Ande Pliego

“Sometimes the art of fiction isn’t in how intellectual it is, but how well it makes you actually forget the world around you.

“Sometimes wounds become scars, not because they’ve healed, but because they’re hiding what’s underneath from ourselves.”

“I think in everyone’s life,” I started slowly, “you get an event that cuts everything in two. Like an axe splitting wood. And there becomes a before and an after.”