To Be Haunted, Jessie Lynn McMains

“And that’s something I’ve never let go of, that, underneath the fur and the fangs, the hunger and the snarling, there’s a voice, there’s a thinking mind, there’s intention and regret and hope and failure and all of it. Yes, fiction works our empathy muscles out, that’s one of the things it does best. What horror fiction’s done for me is it taught me to always look past those fangs. Because there might be someone in there, saying something that needs to be heard.”

Stephen Graham Jones on horror

anne carson, glass, irony & god / fiona apple, "daredevil" / richard siken, "a primer for small weird loves" / daughter, "candles"

This is my girlfriend's blood-stained tank top that I ripped off of her, framed, and hung up on my gallery wall.

my girl wronged by the narrative, my girl haunting her own story, my girl dead in the first act, my girl the blank in between the lines, my girl the phantom of the past the apparition of the future