House of Hunger

by Alexis Henderson

If you cheated your way out of life’s hurts, you wouldn’t be ready for the next blow. And the next blow was always coming.

“I sometimes think there’s nothing more awe-inspiring than the night. True night, that is.”

The whole world runs on blood. Who has good blood. Who has bad blood. Whose blood is shed and whose isn’t. That’s what it all comes down to in the end.

Favor is hard won and harder kept.

I’ll never know an evil so debased as my love for her.

“We’re broken into submission, by grief and poverty, long before we ever set foot in this House.