August 5, 2021

A reflection on how a recurrent eating disorder may affect a writer, when the price of addiction to controlling the body can be counted out in lost words. Content Warning: eating disorders; anorexia; mental illness There is a gentle fleshy line where the top of my tights meets my belly. Tights are elastic, reason tells…

May 23, 2021

After Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci. There’s never true daylight in the Shadow World, but the misty days are lighter than the pitch black nights. Enough to wake me and tell my sleepy eyes it’s morning. The silvery half-light glances off white sheets and high marble walls. I stretch. Yawn. And then I remember…