Rachel

“she says next month I'm going to santa few to do my photography there are a lot of witches in the desert and I can't wait to get as far away as possible and then I'm gonna go work at the border and take pictures of what's really happening but I need to get better at my spanish

she tells me words in spanish
denada
gato
agua

in my head it's all people language

little slaughter says you can come with me you can eat ice”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I hear the petulance in my voice. It's surprising even to me how I revert back to a kid when I talk to her. All I need to complete the transformation is boy band lyrics written in sharpie on my wrist.”
― Maggie Su, Blob: A Love Story

“she throws the phone and I go to get it for her and she laughs and says leave it

I look again at the picture

that can't be me it doesn't have a smell

I don't trust screens to tell me who I am”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“As Simon put it, we are all a riot wrapped in skin.”
― Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine