Remember me naked
I tell my story, I lie by omission, because the voice has never left my body, because the phone under the mattress continues to beat, like a heart I cannot stop, like an eye I cannot close, and I sense that every word I utter feeds it, that every sentence I choose to leave unsaid nourishes it silently.
Alex looks at me sometimes, anxious, but I feel that his eyes want to believe in the truth I offer him, and it is then that I understand that the cruelest lie is not what I tell the police, but what I allow him to believe: that he can save me, that he can fix something, while what I carry inside is far vaster and darker than he imagines.
They ask me questions about the handcuffs, the light, th
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