TILL SIN DO US APART: A TABOO TALE
SINNER’S PRAYER (G×G)
EVELYN HARPER & LUCIA VALDEZ
EVE
I have always known I was damned.
Every Sunday I sit in the same pew, third from the back on the left, fingers worrying the rosary beads in my lap while Father Michael speaks of mortal sin and the fires that wait for the unrepentant. I nod along, my lips moving silently through the responses, but my mind is elsewhere. My gaze drifts to the stained-glass windows, to the painted lips of the female saints—lips I have imagined pressed against my own in the dark of my bedroom while I touch myself and then cry into my pillow afterward.