Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

What she doesn’t like is that she can’t find any toilet paper at the end of the world.

Delilah stopped trying because everything is disposable to her, right down to her dreams.

Cora doesn’t feel important, she feels like she’s trapped in the rotting corpse of a foreclosed house,

There is not enough oxygen inside Cora to keep anger burning. No matter how hard she tries, she can only wield her sharpest thoughts against her own flesh.

Something about darkness feels so expansive these days. Like the world only opens its eyes after dusk.

You blast people to bits or hack them apart because you don’t see them as human—you take away the shape of their body and then no one else can see them as human either.

There are thousands of gods that open thousands of doors to anyone who knocks. It’s about deciding which doors you want to open.”

Do not let your empathy stop at the borders of your own community.