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The parted seas (Return of the exodus) He was different from to me. He had a small waste and broad shoulders. His arms and chest were his most dominant features, and his hands were as rough as the rocks in the sand, and he had foreign parts in places I was bare. He was of the second world. He was second kind. He was the second sex. I let curious eyes wander my acquaintance and his foreigners. In a land of women he was something id never seen before. He was the only of his kind in this world. ...

Deserter.   Dear Tim, in offer of myself, I have some things I want to give you… She starts with her eyes. She needs him to see himself through her eyes. Using a spoon from the dinner table, she carves from her, her own right eye. She cuts through her retina using the knife meant for the dinner’s steak. She’s too numb from the drugs to know she’s screaming. Her screams have nothing to do with pain. The eyeball falls from her cradled hand. She can’t stop s...

In my previous life when we were deer, my mother and I, I pranced the floors of our dirty home. she prance too, loud, stomping the hooves of her feet against the creaks and crack of our wooden floors. Walking back and forth chest thrust forward. For so long now have our guests been brightly impressed with my mother. Moments later I am challenged; A visitor to our circus, he doesn’t know it is all for show. Moments later I am slapped by the hoof of his foot, again I am thrown into the di...