Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward

I’d let boys have it because for a moment, I was Psyche or Eurydice or Daphne. I was beloved.

Medea sneaks Jason things to help him: ointments to make him invincible, secrets in rocks. She has magic, could bend the natural to the unnatural. But even with all her power, Jason bends her like a young pine in a hard wind; he makes her double in two.

I hate him, and I wonder if I will ever stop loving him.