Salvage the Bones

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“Skeetah slices at the stomach, and what comes sliding out is blue and purple, like so much wet yarn.”

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“We took the back way to the hospital, through miles of woods, lonely houses like possums in the dark, half caught then left behind by the headlights.”

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“I lay for so long that when I raise my head from my arm, my hair has marked cursive I can't read into my skin.”

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“The wild things of Bois Sauvage ignore them; we are left to seed another year.”