Doll Crimes
“You’re not scared, are you?”
You’re not scared.
Me and my momma climbing the ladder to the top of the slide, me caged by her body. Step, up, step, up. Her feet moving behind mine, nudging me from rung to rung. Her fingers whitening on the next bar above, her breath huffing into my hair. Her belly, her breasts, curved against my back. The ladder took us onto a square platform, and from there it was like the sky had gotten ten times bigger and the ground a hundred times smaller. I stared at the tops of the pine trees, shaking like I felt the way the world spins. I’d never seen treetops from the side before. The upper branches feathered out in fragile tusks, trembling in the breeze. If the win
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