Tender Is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

There are times when one has to bear the weight of the world.

Every so often people pretend to want the job so they can witness the killing. People who enjoy the process, for whom it’s a source of curiosity, an interesting anecdote to add to their lives.

Ugh

Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.

What he wants to do is prohibited. But he does it anyway.

Men

He runs his hand over her belly. She’s eight months pregnant.

Vomit

“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”

“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”