A Certain Hunger

by Chelsea G. Summers

The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble an existence about which they don’t feel an unendurable level of shame.

My relationship with Emma might be my greatest accomplishment—it’s certainly my greatest wound.

we passed a yeast infection back and forth like a joint.

really, only pedants give a warm fuck. You eat a person because the flesh holds a secret meaning, and to eat it is the straightest line between the abstract and the embodiment.

We can only take so much intimacy before we close our eyes and pray to our gods for a cerebral hemorrhage.

What is heaven but the hope for righteous acknowledgment, and what is hell but the fear of discovery.

and bodies, like desires, are disgusting.