Kelsea Yu

2 months ago | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Kelsea Yu

CW: dead children, body modification. Mother’s blade slides into the soft skin at the nape of my neck, sharp and eager. She doesn’t falter the way she does when it’s Maddy’s turn. No cooing or crying. No reassurances as she slices through the spot where—no matter how brief a time Mother lets me stay Awake—my skin fuses to our underbody. She growls in frustration, a familiar sound from back before. A sound I heard when I’d come home with my dress muddied and torn.