We have many managers here. Manager of Students. Manager of Structures. Manager of Beets. Manager of Spoon. But there is no staff to do the work anymore. We fired all the staff that did the work before. And now we just can't seem to hire for this new position, Manager of Reading the Room.
"I think it's best we see other people," she says to the ghosts she catches lurking on the edges of her peripheral vision, because they are the only ones now. No one else lives here.
"Well mom, if my uterus is going to produce that much blood, I figured I might as well make something out of it," she says, putting the last touches on her red velvet cake.
My fridge has a door to another fridge which has a door to a smaller fridge which has a door to another fridge which has a door to a smaller fridge yet which has a door to a final fridge which opens up to a surprisingly disappointing, stale and microscopic piece of cake.
Everything I touch now is grape Kool-Aid flavoured: medicine, alcohol, chewing gum, vapes, nut butters, blood. So is the curse of my people, the grape Kool-Aid people