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March 23 - March 23, 2022
“I like bugs—especially scorpions and spiders. My dad used to take me out in the desert on nature walks to study them.”
It wasn’t like I’d never thought about being ravished by an alien. There were plenty of romances about that very subject, and I had a taste for them.
He lowered his head and gently brushed the plates on his face against my wet cheeks. “Sorrow makes you lose salt. Why would this benefit your body?”
“You smell delicious, but this hunger isn’t to consume.”
“What is your obsession with food, anyway?” “Your body requires energy that comes from eating food. Why are you not obsessed with it?”
There was something wildly forbidden about this moment. A fruit too exotic for humans to taste, a knowledge that would get me kicked out of my tiny little paradise and cast into a much larger Universe where everyone didn’t look like a human, or talk like a human, or scariest of all—think like a human.
