Spicy Hot
Lena withdraws the blade, wipes the blood with a black cloth, applies an ointment to the wound that sizzles, cauterizes, leaves a white, permanent mark.
The right breast. Same gesture, same cut, same scream, same blood.
Then the thighs. The inner thighs, where the skin is most sensitive, where my fingers have so often caressed, penetrated, possessed. Lena cuts, a fine, deep incision, blood flows abundantly, covers the altar, flows onto the black stone.