A Lesson in Vengeance

by Victoria Lee

You can summon terrible things. You also have the ability to banish them.

This

I cared more about the aesthetic of autumn than about comfort.

Maybe it’s all right to love this. Maybe it’s okay to find comfort in the darkness, as long as I don’t let myself take it too far.

“I’m not one of your characters, Ellis. If something happens to me, you can’t throw out that page and rewrite it.”

as if our childhood traumas don’t trickle like rainwater through the bricks of our lives.