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“The guy treats you like a travel toothbrush. He’ll use you for a week straight, then forget about you for months,”
“You know, you’re not pretty enough to get away with being as mean as you are. And you’re really pretty.” I almost applauded. It wasn’t easy to burn
“You never cry,” she’d said. “You never cry at all.” She was right. I never did. I wasn’t sure if that meant I was strong, or that I was broken.
“So,” Mary Beekman said. Her breath was rank. “Is he coming?” “Is who coming?” I asked. “He must be, if you’re here,” she said. Her head swiveled as if it were loose on her neck; her eyes went big and round in a way that shouldn’t have been possible.
Oh my god is her dad satan
The man raised his hands, and the crowd ceased making any noise. The silence was immediate and absolute. It lasted a long, long time. I was the one to finally slice it open. “Dad?”
Wow
“As all that happens”—he paused to do the wheezing again—“that polar bear starves and dies, bones swallowed by a growing sea. But wait, wait. Wait for inflation. Wait for corporations to line their pockets, to buy up all the houses and rent them back, a return to serfdom. I can’t stress enough how boring it is to watch history repeat itself over and over again. A rerun of the same episode every night. Greed, greed, greed, greed, greed. The wealth gap broadens. The rich eat. . . .” He grabbed my arm and pretended to gnaw on it. “The poor starve. The rich ask, Why are you hungry? If you were
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I found it interesting that those who believed themselves righteous only ever cared about those who agreed with them, and were keen to let those who didn’t suffer whatever brutal fate. There seemed to me an inherent hypocrisy in faith itself. I wasn’t sure there was any way around it.
“Don’t touch me!” I screamed. I turned to the crowd, where the rest of my family hid in the safe obscurity of their robes. “You drugged me. You took my rib.”
This is so camp
I gathered the strength to stand. I scooped it up in my arms, and I carried it into the night. Carried it away from that place, toward a future I had to believe was better than hell.
This would be such a good John Waters movie. Glitter blood etc
