Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

“We’re sisters, so us being together is inevitable. It doesn’t matter how we feel about it. Just like it doesn’t matter how we feel about the sun setting. It happens anyway.”

At the time, Cora didn’t understand what Delilah meant by that. Because all Cora could see when she looked at her sister was a seashell polished by the ocean, full of echoes and air on the inside. Delilah needed her beautiful shell because inside of her, there was nothing.

“I knew how much of a shitty person you were. Sometimes I hated you and hated myself even more because of you, but I still would have followed you anywhere, Delilah, because no matter how awful things got, I thought I’d survive because I’d always have you.”