By The Blood of The Omega
Everything that would make him want to close all the doors he had been leaving open to me.
I would become a piece of furniture after all, but not because I’d achieved it, but because he wouldn’t be looking anymore.
I took the water off the heat. I thought about what I knew of herbs. My mother had taught me the ones I might find useful along with everything else-the ones for staunching blood, for inducing it, for the specific type of thing a woman does when she needs to undo what has been done before it has become itself. There was one that grew in the eastern garden, I'd seen it on the south wall three days ago-a low, flat, grey-green leaf, unexceptional. Pennyroyal. It would take so little.
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