Emma

“every dream I have about kissing you
ends with blood on my hands.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Well, the truth is, vacations are pointless anyway, because you always have to come back, so you might as well save time, skip the middle step, and stay put in the first place.”
― Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own

“so the poem hurt you.
it was supposed to.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]