Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau

Author:Jamie Marina Lau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

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In my bedroom I dream of white voodoo envelopes. I am scared of Honey eating me up, my hair like buckwheat noodles. I call Yuya.

She says that she told me not to call her, that we can chat online. I ask her how Honey is. She says that Honey is fine. I ask her if she told Honey about Tre. She says that Honey found out. I ask how. She says that she’s already told me: Honey knows everything.

The house is strangling me. I ask what’d she say about him. She says that Honey of course told her that there are bad spirits in him. I ask her why Honey doesn’t like him. She says that Honey knows his mother, that apparently his mother is a form of demon, but really, that she thinks Honey’s just being judgmental. Because they’re not the same as us. But she tells me, I’m not scared.

I tell her: you should be.

She asks me why, she says, how would you even know? It’s not like your mother is magic.

I wipe lip balm from my lip and paste some on again. I lick the lip balm using my tongue. Yuya’s voice is bright grapefruit: that came out completely wrong, she says. I didn’t mean to bring up your mother.

I sit in front of Santa Coy’s old computer and watch a video filmed really close-up of a thirty-nine-year-old lady with round cheeks doing a make-up tutorial, applying blush and hot pink lipstick. All this in her bedroom. In the background on her wall is a calendar of girl groups from the nineties and their record covers.

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