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"the baby is big, and your daughter is small. she will tear." i took the scalpel and made a one-inch incision below her vagina


???????? no in what universe would that help?? u just cut into a woman for no reason??? that wouldn't help the baby come into the world?

warnings for graphic rape/molestation scene, racism, antisemitism, sexism, classism

coercion "I can't believe I'm doing this."
"Doing what?"
"I don't know anything about you. How do I know you're not an axe murderer?"
"Would I have a friend like Liza if I was?"
"How should I know?"
"Besides [...] What do you need to know about me? You want me. I want you. What's to know?"

transmisogyny "Katie wasn't as curvy as Chanelle had been, but she was definitely all woman ..."

chanelle's the woman jesse had nice, consensual sex with who talked to her Once again the next night and jesse hits on her friend she brought with her:
"Chanelle wasn't sitting there and hoped she'd found someone new to stalk." ???

her return to painting is so Underwelling jfc

"It's Sara." Jesse said.
"So I see. You need to finish it. You caught her so perfectly."
"It's from her last minutes. She was looking out at the garden right before the brain aneurysm hit."
i have never read someone that speaks so Stilted like this

mislabeled lgbqia+/romance on netgalley... should probably be labeled as straight erotica... uncomfortable and had to skip a lot of Pages

"Jesse fought the urge to molest Chanelle in the car on the way home." no Thank YOu

the words "baby butch" *retching motion*

i can't believe the lesbian bar is called The Black Hole...

ooo! slutshaming "And you think sleeping with every woman in town is being true to her?"

soooo much info dropping.... name, age, comparison... it's lowkey infantile

idk the "it felt good to wash away the woman from the previous night and their sex" is a Red Flag to me immediately. is. is williamz queer or straight bc it reads like internalized homophobia.

"You cannot be any but me
fearing that speech is not free
and that life is a good price"

this poem about charlie hebdo is so Good

"What is the genre of pain?

I cannot translate it into a story
Chronology kills it in the beginning, middle and end"

"I saw so much
I never saw
I saw nothing -

I never saw"

"It holds us hostage
to its dreamless
dreams

knowing that nightmares
are immortal"

"No wonder
fortune tellers
can tell the truth:

They have been studying
history"

"the oppressed
crying against injustice
turn into oppressors"
is... is she talking about israel

I can't believe Zan brought up the acid attacks oh my god

when white ppl look at u
"The sky in your eyes
is the tempestuous peace
of militant empathy"
ohhhhhhhh

i'm sorry i'm too busy crying over Threshold ya rab
"Nature-
a witness
to my stasis
and your growth

My eyes caressing you
in my absence

Love,
My homeland,

I had always thought
you
were as far as I could go"

"We speak
the same tongue-
our togetherness
intimate acts of separation"