Monstrilio

by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

We didn’t so much exist as much as we haunted, and with no one else to haunt, we haunted each other.

To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up, to wilt, to lose bone, to die, and death is the most boring.

I should have been an actress, so much I enjoyed performing, but I was too occupied doing what I liked doing best: directing the way our three lives unfolded, tethered to one another, full.