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do you feel yourself rotting?
"You only know that what tastes good on the tongue is torture for what the tongue can’t tell."
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Violetta Alexis
Purple Rhododendrons
"He believed everything she did was magic. Not because he said it, but you could see it in the way he looked at her, like the Earth chose to plant…
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Violetta Alexis
4
Little Spider
"Thoughts of you spin silk webs of what could have been, a poisonous spider dancing between my knuckles."
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Violetta Alexis
1
The Silent War on Women
"The men we work with, the men we pray with, the men we eat with and the men we sleep with."
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Violetta Alexis
What We Became
"She was a fuzzy pink glove around a polished blade. She was a comet amongst a sky of dead gas bombs, a luminary amongst a cosmos full of planets, a…
4
Keep The Change
All the reasons he thought I was crazy—and all the reasons he couldn’t find enough of them to leave.
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Violetta Alexis
5
Swimming With Sharks
"A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he'll tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde, *The Picture of Dorian Gray*
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Violetta Alexis
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