Wolfie

“The color my mother painted the whole house when my father was drowning in a bottle, believing instinct would drag him like any good animal toward the light. How he once tried to hollow his lungs into our swimming pool & couldn’t stop his body from surfacing, so he went looking for a gun instead.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“The aliens arrive.
We like the part where we get saved.
We like the part where we get destroyed.
Why do those feel so similar?
Either way, it’s an end.
No more just being alive.
No more pretend.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I want to make this violence a stranger in my mouth. I want to make it something worth remembering.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

“Before we named the stars, we named the shapes their bodies made.”
― torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound