Status Updates From Bat Eater

“Her heartbeat is so loud, her heels at the edge of a great precipice, wind rushing all around her. She doesn't want to look back. For so long, she couldn't bear to.
But clearly, it's not a choice anymore. Closing your eyes doesn't stop monsters from devouring you.”

“she feels like her turn is coming soon.”

“i guess we’re ghostbusters now.”

“who cares if another chinese girl is dead — they’ll hear me screaming and just put in their headphones and keep walking. even now, you want to walk away from us because it’s gross, because blood and guts make you uncomfortable. but it doesn’t matter if we’re uncomfortable — we don’t get to look away. we’re dying and no one can hear us.”

“‘we can’t just look for white men. you should have looked harder,’ they said. but white men are going after asian girls, and that’s all they have to go on, us being asian. no one wants to look harder at us. to imagine that we’re real people. every day i clean up their brains and blood and i know that a white man coming for me isn’t an if, it’s a when.”