Reposted by Christie Wilson
New story out on @hexliterary.bsky.social today! One of my fave journals doing it rn.
It's kinda inspired by Ben Loory & Brian Evenson, and by homes & love & language, and it's maybe a little more unsettling/creepy than my typical modes while also being about kinda all the same ol shit as always.
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The Attic by Aaron Burch
Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push.
Probably both. A “Babe, babe,” together with or followed by, enough of a jostle to wake me up while trying not to startle me.
“Sorry,” Michelle said. “I...
![[COMMA], TONGUE
ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE
knelling, parsing speech, air rung
when split, sound breaks in its waves,
curls back upon it, my voice, sprung from its tip, then stamped in air, parceled, coined
discursive currency, gilded,
cleft like a snake's, stricken & cat-taken, locked between my lover's lips, bloodied
when bitten, best held so's not to prove the fool, beheld as a guardian
to the soul, my strip of flesh, slip of breath, slip of pen on page, a second's
breadth, the interval between one lifted note's little death, one's life [mine], & the next.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bykuj3evz4busp5zumgcvtxk/bafkreigjvb2wmb43v45wojqqibca57przmrvihectljs2lzpgmmboqauqq)
