Status Updates From Sleeping with the Enemy

'Hand-printed letters writhed beneath Sara's eyes, crawling out of white petals where they had been fastened to one rose as red as a drop of blood.' 🌹🩸💀

'She was a poisonous plant, rubbing death off on any man who touched her.' 💀

'- but I'm a booklover. I gnaw on books like bones.' 💀🦴

'For a moment she felt safe with him - a stupid feeling for someone carrying danger with her like a secret disease.'

'She stared up the way a body might stare, rotting on a beach.' 💀

'The tide was going out. Sand Hook made calm water, cutting the force of currents that would pull a corpse out to sea and never give it back, not even as a heap of flesh rotting in seaweed on some beach. The water would be as cold as a pistol against her head: I'll kill you if you ever leave me again.'