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Warning

Posted on May 22, 2010

I am warning you now: If you offer me your heart, I will not eat it. I’ll barely touch it. I’ll fiddle around with it all through the long mealtime and leave a mess on the plate for some busboy … Continue reading →

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Pictureless Cartoon

Posted on May 13, 2010

“Eat your heart out,” she sneered. Too late. She’d left only scraps.

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Connoisseur

Posted on May 12, 2010

At first it was a passing thought, simple and literal:  I wonder what it’s like to eat one. But it came back to her from time to time, and over time it became something of an obsession.  She’d stalk the … Continue reading →

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Trauma and Intervention

Posted on May 12, 2010

Contusion, laceration: Your blunt words, your hissed splinters, more secret than a vampire’s bite, make me bruise and bleed. Tamponade: Rhythm-stiffling blood pools around my heart. Pericardiocentesis: Feed, and fix me. Stick in your straw, sip it out.

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