A Certain Hunger

by Chelsea G. Summers

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never know too much.

Thus, protected by knowledge and the Pill, I fucked my way through college.

monsters all, say I, the cannibal.

You—comfortable in your chair, snug in your bed, rocking somnolent on the train, curved around your Kindle, or propping your book open in your splayed hands—probably are making a silent wish for me to table the gruesome details.