Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

When you’re drowning and someone grabs your hand, you don’t ask them where they’re taking you.

If you want someone dead, you should have to sink your fingers into their eyes, feel their trachea collapse under your hands, let them scratch your arms and pull your hair and cry and beg. Because if you kill someone, you should want it more than anything you’ve ever wanted before. It shouldn’t be easy.