The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

by Katya Apekina

choose the hell you know over the one you don’t, because it can always get worse.”

“Shame is useless unless it motivates you to do better. Usually it does no such thing. It only sucks up energy. Drink.”

it’s terrible to always have to keep track of the edges of things as they slide away from you.

“Let the Bon Temps Rouler!”

Her mother’s suffering was so huge it was like its own person: it needed to be constantly fed and tended to.

ART IS NOT A SHIELD. IT IS A KNIFE. YOU HAVE TO BLEED!

physicists say that some particles exist only when they are being watched. an electron that isn’t leaping from one orbit to another like a flea, or that isn’t being prodded by a scientist, ceases to be. i think this is what happened to me. i ceased to exist.