The Water Cure

by Sophie Mackintosh

It occurs to me that I would like you to come back to life so I could kill you myself.

TRAUMA IS A toxin that hooks into our hair and organs and blood and becomes part of us, the way heavy metals do, our bodies nothing more than a layering of flesh around everything ingested and experienced.

I am sick of the men, of how they reduce us, how even now I am cowering.