Summer of Salt

by Katrina Leno

we watched the rain come down while we waited for my sister, while we waited for my father. But only one of them would ever show up.

:((

“Fuck. Is it raining? That’s just great. Everything is great.”

Georgina controls the weather

the weather was as inconsistent as my own moods. Ups and downs, sun and rain.

!!!

I kissed her. Lightly. Like how I imagined a bird would kiss another bird. And she kissed me back. Like how a bird might ask for more.

This is such a lesbian way to describe kissing

“If anyone attempts to leave the island, they will find the ferry to be quite nonoperational,” she said quietly.

WHAT ABPUT THE PREGNANT WOMAN

“you always cry when it rains.

“Of course it’s a fucking man. Men are always killing things.

I knew that he would use that gun, because that is what small, scared men did: they used things more powerful than themselves to make up the difference. They hid behind weapons of mass destruction: big guns and bigger bombs.

Because there was nothing in a girl’s history that might negate her right to choose what happens to her body.

On the island of By-the-Sea you could always smell two things: salt and magic.