Status Updates From Bone House

Some species, Aunt Orchid said, required thirst. If you overwatered them, their roots would grow too shallow and lazy, no longer needing to search the soil deeply, dependent on being fed by our hands rather than trusting their own depths. Cathy believed that the more she and Edie thirsted, the deeper their roots would snare inside each other. They would find inside each other’s bodies all the water they wanted.

speaking of Cathy like a dog or a god…Cathy can sense your fear, so stop. Cathy loves everyone…Cathy is very protective of me. Cathy doesn’t like to be leashed. Cathy doesn’t bite because her teeth are brittle and porous, a symptom of low calcium intake from childhood. Cathy, come here. Cathy, come back. Cathy, play dead, but answer to your name so I know you leash me, I mean need me. Cathy, speak. I beg you

“it was called Bone House not because it was made of calcium but because the man who built it had been a butcher, and he’d installed hooks in every room for pigs to be hung and skinned and salted back to life…
“I looked up at the hooks in every room, the walls spidered with light. On each hook hung utensils, coats, necklaces. It was like walking through a wind chime, so much dangling without a name.”

one the most claustrophobic novelettes i’ve ever read, seems unfair that it’s also one of the prettiest! at 26 pages you can finish this in one sitting and i recommend not coming up for air

this is SO beautiful and SO heartbreaking and my heart is just— wow

“Some desires are only legible in the dark.”

i’m traumatized for millet

sapphic aapi wuthering heights reimagining LET’S GO !!! ✨ GAY RIGHTS ✨

“Some desires are only legible in the dark.”